Men who were detained under the state of emergency are transported in a cargo truck in Soyapango, El Salvador in October 2022 after President Nayib Bukele began a crackdown on gangs that suspended constitutional rights and threw one in every 100 people in jail.
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Ecuador is soon holding a referendum to decide whether to follow El Salvador’s controversial strategy to end drug trafficking.
Lionel Messi continues to face anger from Chinese fans for missing a game in Hong Kong.
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Messi will not start a war in China, but this is not to say that football lacks political relevance.
Protesters in El Salvador declare ‘Yes to democracy. No to authoritarianism’ during a demonstration on Jan. 14, 2024.
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A survey of people across 24 countries in Latin America and the Caribbean found widespread concern over the economy and crime.
El Salvador President Nayib Bukele looks set to be reelected.
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Mass arrests and the suspension of constitutional rights have been a feature of President Nayib Bukele’s tenure. A fresh mandate from voters will likely entrench his hardline approach.
The successful courting of Honduras is the latest example of China’s influence in Latin America.
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As US influence in Latin America has waned, Beijing has been able to expand business interests in the region on the back of shady practices.
A worker from Hope House, an organization that sponsors the use of cryptocurrencies on El Zonte beach, makes a purchase at a small shop that accepts bitcoins, in Tamanique, El Salvador, June 9, 2021.
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An expert in the field of cryptocurrencies answers the question: Is crypto really here to stay or is it just a fad?
The Cerro Blanco mining site is located in Guatemala’s department of Jutiapa, which borders El Salvador and the Pacific ocean.
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Locals from Asunción Mita, Guatemala recently voted against the development of mining activities in their municipality, in a referendum contested by a Canadian mining company that owns a gold mine.
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El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele thought making Bitcoin legal tender would revolutionise his country’s economy, He was wrong.
Members of a union representing workers who clean New York City offices march in 2019.
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Often overlooked in the immigration debate are the contributions of migrants, such as how they helped organize workers in the 1990s.
Armed Salvadoran soldiers, following presidential orders, surrounded lawmakers in 2020.
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For the commitment to democracy to regain strength across the Americas, citizens need to become more confident in the integrity of their elections and their elected officials.
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El Salvador’s president Nayib Bukele wants to build “Bitcoin City” – a tax-free territory in the country’s east, powered by a nearby volcano.
Banking on bitcoin: El Salvador announced plans to build a Bitcoin City in November 2021.
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A bitcoin symbol is seen on an LED screen during the closing ceremony of a gathering of cryptocurrency investors in Santa Maria Mizata, El Salvador, in November 2021. President Nayib Bukele announced his government is building an oceanside Bitcoin City.
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The market for cryptocurrencies has expanded dramatically in the last year. With this uptick of activity, what’s next in 2022 for cryptocurrencies?
It’s all legal tender.
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The country became the first to make bitcoin a formal part of its payments system, but whether it’ll catch on is another story.
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El Salvador has become the first nation in the world to make Bitcoin legal tender. So what exactly is President Nayib Bukele thinking?
El Salvador is likely to become the first country to adopt bitcoin as legal tender.
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El Salvador has become the first country to adopt bitcoin as legal tender. This is a noble idea, but unworkable in the long term.
Salvadoran president Nayib Bukele promised voters change. Instead, he seems to be reviving El Salvador’s authoritarian past.
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El Salvador ‘is inching back toward its authoritarian past’ after President Nayib Bukele fired five supreme court justices and the attorney general – essentially the only checks on his power.
Children play in Las Flores village, Comitancillo, Guatemala, home of a 22-year-old migrant murdered in January 2021 on his journey through Mexico.
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Biden’s $4 billion plan to fight crime, corruption and poverty in Central America is massive. But aid can’t build viable democracies if ‘predatory elites’ won’t help their own people.
U.S. Border Patrol detains tens of thousands of the families and children who try to cross U.S. borders every year.
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Children and families have been fleeing to the US in rising numbers for nearly a decade. So why is the current situation at the US-Mexico border being viewed as something new?
Members of a Salvadoran feminist group watch a virtual hearing March 10 on El Salvador’s abortion laws by the Inter-American Court of Human Rights.
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Hundreds of Salvadoran women have been prosecuted for homicide for having abortions, miscarriages or stillbirths since 1997. Now an international court must decide: Is that legal?