News of el salvador

Salvadoran president vows to buy "one #Bitcoin every day'

17-11-2022 16:04 Bitcoin traded at about $16,500 per unit on Thursday, down from $45,000 in September 2021 when El Salvador adopted the cryptocurrency.

Climate Change

Battered by climate change, Latin America must brace for worse: report

26-07-2022 14:22 Latin America is now experiencing the calamitous impacts of climate change: water shortages and food insecurity are making their impact on human life in the region. It will only get worse, says World Meteorological Organisation report.

Latin America

Ex-guerrilla takes on maverick in race to be Colombia's president

18-06-2022 01:20 A former leftist guerrilla and a millionaire businessman will go head-to-head on Sunday hoping to become the new president of Colombia.

Human rights

El Salvador extends state of emergency to curb wave of gang violence

25-04-2022 12:45 El Salvador's lawmakers on Sunday extended a state of emergency for another month at the request of President Nayib Bukele. It was imposed in late March to stamp out a wave of deadly gang violence, expanding police powers so that they could arrest members without a warrant.

CRYPTOCURRENCIES

IMF urges El Salvador to remove Bitcoin as legal tender

25-01-2022 18:45 The IMF on Tuesday called on El Salvador to change course and stop using Bitcoin as legal tender, citing "large risks" posed by the cryptocurrency.

CORRUPTION & THE COURTS

Raids uncover corrupt mayor’s stash of cash, guns and luxury cars

15-10-2021 12:32 Courts in Salta Province order police raids on 18 properties linked to Salvador Mazza Mayor Rubén Méndez, confiscating more than US$850,000 in cash, weapons and imported luxury cars.

ABORTION RIGHTS

Thousands march for abortion rights in Latin America

29-09-2021 08:47 Thousands of women took to the streets across Latin America Tuesday to demand abortion rights, a practice largely prohibited in the region where hundreds of women are serving prison time under draconian laws.

CRYPTOCURRENCIES

El Salvador president says half a million using new bitcoin wallet

14-09-2021 11:56 There are now more than half a million people using El Salvador's bitcoin wallet, President Nayib Bukele said Monday.

CRYPTOCURRENCIES

In world first, bitcoin becomes legal tender in El Salvador

07-09-2021 08:39 El Salvador officially becomes the first country in the world to accept bitcoin as legal tender.

CRYPTOCURRENCIES

El Salvador is banking on bitcoin, but will it work?

22-06-2021 15:28 El Salvador will soon become the only country in the world accepting bitcoin as legal tender, a cutting-edge but potentially risky new avenue for its large expat community to send money back home.

CRYPTOCURRENCIES

El Salvador first country to approve bitcoin as legal tender

09-06-2021 09:33 Lawmakers in El Salvador approve bill that will eventually allow digital currency to be used for many aspects of daily life, from property purchases to tax contributions.

PRESS FREEDOM

El Salvador's new Legislative Assembly removes tax break for newspapers

05-05-2021 18:36 El Salvador's Legislative Assembly, dominated by allies of President Nayib Bukele, has approved a bill that would remove tax break that benefits newspapers and other publications.

Bukele sparks outrage

Political crisis in El Salvador as lawmakers oust judges, attorney general

03-05-2021 13:44 A political storm has erupted in El Salvador after its Legislative Assembly, newly controlled by President Nayib Bukele's party, dismissed the attorney general and top judges deemed hostile to the populist leader.

Coronavirus Pandemic

No class for a year: Covid worsens Latin American inequality

10-03-2021 14:55 Of the 14 countries that have remained largely closed since March 2020, two-thirds of them are in Latin American and the Caribbean. As children fall further behind in their education, UNICEF worries that some may never return to the classroom.

News of el salvador

Salvadoran president vows to buy "one #Bitcoin every day'

Battered by climate change, Latin America must brace for worse: report

Ex-guerrilla takes on maverick in race to be Colombia's president

El Salvador extends state of emergency to curb wave of gang violence

IMF urges El Salvador to remove Bitcoin as legal tender

Raids uncover corrupt mayor’s stash of cash, guns and luxury cars

Thousands march for abortion rights in Latin America

El Salvador president says half a million using new bitcoin wallet

In world first, bitcoin becomes legal tender in El Salvador

El Salvador is banking on bitcoin, but will it work?

El Salvador first country to approve bitcoin as legal tender

El Salvador's new Legislative Assembly removes tax break for newspapers

Political crisis in El Salvador as lawmakers oust judges, attorney general

No class for a year: Covid worsens Latin American inequality

Lucio Dupuy trial: Mother, partner found guilty of killing five-year-old

Hauke Hartmann: ‘In the last decade we have seen authoritarian populism emerge with tougher autocracies’

Publisher brings LatAm's best lit to English-speaking audiences

Argentina’s latest unorthodox tool to combat inflation: Artificial intelligence

Guy Standing: ‘A basic income is a right of every individual in every society’

El "cometa verde" visto desde Argentina, en su primera visita a la Tierra en 50.000 años

Impactante sismo en Turquía y Siria: se desplomaron edificios enteros y hay más de 150 muertos

“En Dominique observo parecidos con Mónica Cahen D’Anvers”, explica Eduardo Metzger

Jorge Asís: “Massa y Larreta es casi como Thompson & Williams”

Una niña encontró restos de dos gliptodontes, el animal prehistórico que captó la atención de Darwin