El Salvador’s Congress has ratified a constitutional reform that will make it easier and faster to make constitutional changes in the future, a change critics say will allow President Nayib Bukele and his party to further consolidate power.
Nayib Bukele, El Salvador’s iconic Bitcoin-loving president, just fired shots at former US Senator Bob Menendez, who was sentenced to 11 years in prison on Jan. 29 after investigators found gold bars and half a million in cash hidden in his house.
El Salvador's Congress on Wednesday swiftly approved a bill sent just minutes earlier by President Nayib Bukele to amend its bitcoin law to comply with a deal with a key international lender to make acceptance of the cryptocurrency voluntary.
The Trump administration is in talks with El Salvador to accept citizens from other countries, including Venezuelan gang members from Tren de Aragua.
El Salvador’s Congress passed a bill on Jan. 29 to amend key aspects of its Bitcoin law. The changes align with conditions set by the
The archbishop did not mention any politicians by name—much less El Salvador’s popular president, Nayib Bukele, who pillories critics on social media and lets few slights go unchallenged. But he voiced deep opposition to a proposal being pushed through the National Assembly that day to roll back a ban on mining in the Central American country.
El Salvador’s Congress has swiftly approved a proposal from President Nayib Bukele to reform the country’s Bitcoin law after its IMF deal.
Built to house El Salvador's most dangerous gangsters, conditions at the maximum-security "Terrorism Confinement Center" (CECOT) are slammed by rights groups as inhumane.
The arrangement, known as a "Safe Third Country" agreement, would empower U.S. immigration officials to deport non-Salvadoran migrants to El Salvador.
El Salvador amended its Bitcoin law to comply with an IMF deal, ensuring voluntary acceptance while maintaining its legal tender status.
Merchants in El Salvador, the first country to make bitcoin legal tender, will no longer be obliged to accept the cryptocurrency as payment, under a reform adopted to comply with
Peter Gietl of Blaze Media and Salvadoran journalist Ricardo Avelar debate the resolution, "President Nayib Bukele's crime-fighting policies in El Salvador provide a model for reducing violence in other Latin American countries.