The National Bitcoin Office (Oficina Nacional del Bitcoin, ONBTC) announced, once again, that it made new daily Bitcoin purchases last week, which clashes with one of the key demands of the International Monetary Fund (IMF): to stop accumulating Bitcoin with public...
El Salvador’s total public debt has increased by $13.25 billion since the day Nayib Bukele first sat in the presidential chair until 31 March 2025, the most recent date for which the Banco Central de Reserva (Central Reserve Bank, BCR) has published data—that is,...
“Clemency.” That is what the Mesa Nacional del Transporte (National Transportation Bureau) asked of the President of the Republic, Nayib Bukele, on May 6, for the release of public transport operators detained for allegedly failing to provide free service, despite the...
At the 1904 World’s Fair in St. Louis, amid pavilions featuring X-ray machines and edible curiosities (including a butter sculpture of President Theodore Roosevelt), there were “anthropological” displays in which Indigenous people from around the world inhabited...
Some days seem like years. In the last two weeks, Nayib Bukele’s unconstitutional government has made it clear that its greatest weakness is not the problems it causes, but the narrative surrounding them. Narratives are those stories woven on social media and in...
By considerably reducing the homicide rate in El Salvador, Nayib Bukele has achieved what all his predecessors had failed to do. El Salvador is no longer the most dangerous country in the world. Many countries are now looking to imitate the Salvadoran model —which we...
