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.
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 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 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.
As President Trump moves to expel migrants unauthorized to be in the U.S., a group of Salvadoran mothers warn that deportees could suffer the same fate as their sons and daughters: sent to prison without due process.
The largest prison in Latin America and emblem of the war against gangs in El Salvador celebrates two years since it was inaugurated under conditions that rights groups call inhumane. Along with Milei's support,
Located 110 kilometers (68 miles) east of the capital San Salvador, Berlin has emerged as a rival to El Zonte, the surf town nicknamed "Bitcoin Beach."
A court in El Salvador has sentenced three youths to five years in prison and put five more on probation after they were arrested last year following the public release of a video of them making gang signs inside a school.
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 conditions for an
HUNDREDS of people have protested in the centre of El Salvador’s capital against the approval of a law allowing metallic mining in the country. The proposals are being pushed by President Nayib Bukele, who claimed at the end of last year that El Salvador had gold deposits “with the highest density per square kilometre in the world.”
SAN SALVADOR — A court in El Salvador on Thursday ... It comes amid a harsh gang crackdown by El Salvador President Nayib Bukele. Following a wave of gang violence in 2022, Bukele declared ...