El Salvador has added more bitcoin to its “strategic reserve” through a fresh purchase amid a surge in the cryptocurrency’s prices, which topped 118,000 dollars—a new all-time high. El Salvador’s Oficina Nacional de Bitcoin (National Bitcoin...
Of the program’s first 114 projects, only four schools appear on record as completed and delivered. Three were showcased during the initiative’s opening two days, relaunched by the government two months ago, and the fourth was announced on June 6. Work at the other...
El Salvador received $640 million in Foreign Direct Investment in 2024, an 11% year-over-year decline. The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) qualified that while there was a reduction, this amount represented the second-highest annual...
More than two years ago, in May 2023, the organization Cristosal unveiled a report that sparked international condemnation over the grave human rights violations documented during the first year of the state of exception imposed by Nayib Bukele. In an exhaustive...
Cristosal, El Salvador’s foremost human rights organization, has halted its operations in the Central American nation and been compelled into exile amid unrelenting pressure from President Nayib Bukele’s administration. This was confirmed to EL PAÍS on Wednesday by...
The human rights organization Cristosal announced on the morning of Thursday, July 17, that it would cease operations in El Salvador, attributing the pressure to its work denouncing acts of corruption and supporting victims of the state of exception, among other...
