El Salvador closes 2024 with a record low number of homicides
President Bukele says the country saw only homicides per 100,000 people, which would put it below what any Latin American ...
Cuba Frees Salvadoran Jailed Over 1997 Hotel Bombings
Cuba released on Monday a Salvadoran man, Raul Ernesto Cruz Leon, after he served 30 years in prison over a wave of 1997 hotel bombings, local media reported.
El Salvador's Congress approves ending ban on metals mining
SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) — El Salvador's Congress approved Monday a law that would lift the country’s seven-year-old ...
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El Salvador Eyes $3 Trillion Gold Mine Beneath Its Soil
Seven years ago, El Salvador made global headlines as the first country in the world to ban all metal mining. The decision was hailed as a victory for environmental protection, celebrated by local ...
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El Salvador sitting on $3 trillion worth of unmined gold, president says
El Salvador, which became the first country in the world to ban metals mining, could be losing out economy-changing wealth due to its massive unearthed gold deposits, says its President Nayib Bukele.
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El Salvador discovers a potential $3,000,000,000,000 worth of gold and no one is allowed to mine it
President Nayib Bukele has claimed that El Salvador is sitting on $3,000,000,000,000 of unmined gold. Bukele has revealed plans to submit a proposal to the Legislative Assembly, in order to 'repeal ...
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El Salvador Is the Only Country Directly Buying Bitcoin Among 13 BTC-Holding Nations
Over 13 nations are now confirmed to hold the cryptocurrency, however, El Salvador stands out as the only country to make direct Bitcoin purchases, according to a report by River, a Bitcoin exchange.
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El Salvador to Change Bitcoin Law as Part of New IMF Deal: FT
El Salvador may roll back a small aspect of its Bitcoin law as part of a new deal with the International Monetary Fund. The Latin American country may no longer require Salvadorean merchants to ...
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El Salvador plans Bitcoin policy changes to secure $1.3B IMF loan — FT
El Salvador, the first country in the world to accept Bitcoin as legal tender, is reportedly scaling back its BTC ambitions under pressure from the International Monetary Fund (IMF). El Salvador ...
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El Salvador will reportedly dial back its bitcoin ambitions to secure a loan from the IMF
El Salvador will likely dial down bitcoin's role as a legal tender in exchange for a $1.3 billion loan from the International Monetary Fund, The Financial Times reported. Though a finalized deal ...
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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 ...
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Magnitude 5.6 quake hits El Salvador
SAN SALVADOR, Dec 8 (Reuters) - A magnitude 5.6 earthquake struck some 9 km (6 miles) south-west of La Union in El Salvador, the Euro-Mediterranean Seismological Centre (EMSC) said late on Sunday.