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Bitcoin Country No More? El Salvador Bends To Secure IMF Loan

El Salvador has reached an agreement with IMF staff to secure a $3.5 billion funding package, but not without consequences that could hit Nayib Bukele's grandiose vision of a "Bitcoin country."

International Business Times

$BTC Hits $108,000 As Experts Clash Over US Bitcoin Strategic Reserve

Bitcoin once again hit another price record Tuesday night amid optimism over a U.S. $BTC reserve, but not everyone is convinced a Bitcoin fund will work – what are the experts saying?

International Business Times

Argentine President Javier Milei To Attend Trump's Inauguration

Argentine President Milei accepts Trump's inauguration invite, while other world leaders consider attendance. Trump extends invitations to global leaders f...

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Trump Is Also Approaching El Salvador About Potentially Receiving Deportees

The transition team has reached out to the country through back channels. It is unclear whether the Bukele government will be open to the possibility

Latin Times

El Salvador's New Cybersecurity Laws Raise Concerns Over Media Freedom

Proponents call it modernization, but watchdogs see a path to censorship.

Reason

Bitcoin Tops $106,000 For The First Time – What's Next For World's Top Crypto?

Bitcoin has exceeded $106,000, breaking its previous all-time highs amid high hopes for an American national strategic $BTC reserve after Texas, a pro-crypto state, introduced a bill to establish a state Bitcoin reserve.

International Business Times

Who Is Ronald Johnson, The CIA Veteran and Bukele Ally Chosen By Trump To Be The Next U.S. Ambassador to Mexico

With decades of experience in the CIA and military, Johnson forged a strong partnership with President Bukele to combat gang violence in El Salvador

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What could Trump’s return to the White House mean for Latin America?

Analysts say US President-elect Donald Trump’s second term is poised to bolster far-right groups and strain trade ties.

Al Jazeera

President's Push To Scrap Gold Mining Ban Causes Outcry In El Salvador

El Salvador's gang-busting strongman President Nayib Bukele has set out on a new mission: to kickstart his country's sputtering economy by inviting back the mining companies that were barred seven years ago.

International Business Times

El Salvador Relaxes Bitcoin Rules To Seal $1.3 Billion Loan

El Salvador close to $1.3B loan deal with IMF, contingent on changes to Bitcoin policy and fiscal deficit reduction. President Bukele focuses on economic revival and foreign investment.

Benzinga

Happy Bitcoin $100K Day: Here's How Nayib Bukele, Brian Armstrong, And Peter Schiff Reacted To The Historic Milestone

Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC), some sixteen years after its inception as a lesser-known decentralized digital money, is now worth over $100,000. Yes, you heard it right!

Benzinga

Fossil fascism used to demonize migrants

Ecofascists have a long history of supporting the environment when it empowers racist policy

Salon

Catholic church calls on president of El Salvador not to lift ban on gold mining

The Roman Catholic Church has called on the president of El Salvador not to lift the country's ban on gold mining

The Independent UK

El Salvador And Bhutan – How Two Small Nations Led The National Bitcoin Reserve Race

El Salvador and Bhutan are making headlines in recent months as their Bitcoin strategies have paid off significantly with $BTC's price surge since the 2024 U.S. elections – what brought these two small countries to the spotlight?

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The Independent UK

El Salvador president proposes ending country's metals mining ban

El Salvador President Nayib Bukele has proclaimed himself in favor of mining gold in the Central America country and called his nation’s 7-year-old ban on metals mining “absurd.”

Benzinga

Pro-Bitcoin Trump Administration Could See El Salvador Emerging As US 'Strategic Partner,' Says VanEck

Asset management firm VanEck expressed optimism at El Salvador’s bold Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) bet, terming it as a model of innovation for the emerging world.

Fortune

Two small countries bet on Bitcoin—and it's paying off big time

Bhutan and El Salvador have seen their Bitcoin holdings soar beyond $1 billion and $500 million, respectively.

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Matt Gaetz Nominated For Attorney General By Donald Trump

Matt Gaetz's potential role as AG and his alignment with El Salvador's President Bukele's policies.

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International Business Times

The Real $BTC Country? Bhutan Government's Bitcoin Treasury Passes $1 Billion

The Kingdom of Bhutan, a small sovereign state that quietly built up its Bitcoin mining operations, has become a force to reckon with as it now has 12,000 Bitcoins worth over a billion dollars.

Latin Times

Nayib Bukele Hails Vindication As Bitcoin Hits New All-Time Highs

Nayib Bukele is just one of the many Bitcoiners who feel vindicated after Bitcoin hit new all-time highs, but the El Salvadoran leader's case is particularly special, as he refused to bend to skeptics who questioned his $BTC strategy.

International Business Times

Nayib Bukele Claims Vindication As Bitcoin Hits New All-Time Highs

The El Salvador leader refused to bend to skeptics who questioned his strategy.

Latin Times

Milei, Bukele and Other Latin American Leaders Promptly Congratulate Trump on His Victory

The list also includes president Braziluan Lula da Silva and Panama's Jose Raúl Mulino but not Mexico's Claudia Sheinbaum

Reason

A Week of Failing To Pay With Bitcoin in El Salvador

The country claims to be a leader in crypto transactions. But you can't force people to take a currency they don't want.

Latin Times

El Salvador Troops Target Gangs In Large-scale Operation

Images released by the government showed soldiers massing for the operation and heavily armed police patrolling the neighborhood and checking identity documents.

The Independent UK

Thousands of soldiers fence off a Salvadoran neighborhood in pursuit of gang remnants

More than 2,000 soldiers and 500 police officers surrounded a dense neighborhood on the outskirts of El Salvador’s capital in an effort to quash the remnants of gangs the president said were trying to set up shop in the area

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