Salvadors

Issued on: 29/03/2023 - 16:01Modified: 29/03/2023 - 16:02 Protesters gathered in El Salvador's capital on March 28 to denounce ongoing human rights abuses under the state…

Issued on: 18/11/2022 - 12:43 In El Salvador, a state of emergency declared in March over widespread gang violence is still in place. The country's president, Nayib Bukele,…

El Salvador’s Nayib Bukele told his Twitter followers to be patient, even as the country’s Bitcoin investments fall by more than 50% in value El Salvador’s Nayib Bukele told his Twitter followers to be patient, even as the country’s…

Issued on: 12/05/2022 - 19:45Modified: 16/05/2022 - 11:28 More than 28,000 people have been arrested in El Salvador since March 27, when a state of emergency was declared in…

In recent years the US has begun to eschew its assumed role as the world’s policeman in a process that arguably started under Barack Obama, accelerated under Donald Trump and has been cemented under Joe Biden with the withdrawal of troops…

© Reuters. El Salvador’s historic embrace of (BTC) could have negative consequences on the country’s sovereign credit outlook, according to Moody’s Investors Service. Moody’s analyst Jaime Reusche told Bloomberg this week that El…

© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele speaks during a ceremony to lay the first stone of Chivo Vet, a veterinary hospital financed with the gains El Salvador has obtained from its bitcoin operations, in Antiguo…

El Salvador is building a new city. No big deal, right? Wrong. The concept of this unique city is duly backed by Bitcoin, the world’s largest crypto player in terms of market capitalization. At first, associating Bitcoin with a new…

Bond investors have taken a dim view of El Salvador’s plans to borrow $1bn to fund a volcano-powered “bitcoin city”, saying the scheme could push the country further from access to traditional debt markets.President Nayib Bukele, who…

As El Salvador enters its bitcoin era, its sky will sparkle with the lights of a platoon of drones. “We are throwing an event,” says American cryptocurrency evangelist Brock Pierce. “They did a big one at Burning Man in the past. They did…