El Salvador’s military-controlled education ministry is enforcing strict discipline for school children, from army haircuts to national prayer recitations, in what rights groups say is the latest sign of the country’s slide into authoritarianism. Air force Captain...
El Salvador, the first country to make Bitcoin legal tender, will move its reserves of the popular cryptocurrency to multiple new addresses from the single address it previously used in order to improve security, it said on Friday. The country’s National Bitcoin...
Republican Senator Ted Cruz of Texas arrived in El Salvador on Tuesday for a series of meetings to discuss the relationship between the United States and El Salvador. Upon arrival, Cruz confirmed he had met with Security Minister Gustavo Villatoro and was scheduled to...
Nayib Bukele knew. He always knew. It was his pact. The news is that Donald Trump also knew, and this opens one of the most cynical chapters in the relationship between that powerful man and the now-dictator of El Salvador. Bukele made a pact with El Salvador’s gangs...
A clean uniform. Approved haircuts only. Saying hello when entering the classroom, and goodbye when leaving it. Reciting the national prayer to the flag. Students are now required to follow all these requirements and more in El Salvador, where the government of...
In early August, a case of myiasis, an infestation caused by the New World screwworm, was confirmed in a Maryland resident who returned from travel in El Salvador, according to U.S. health officials. It is the first travel-associated case of myiasis in the United...
