El Salvador made bitcoin legal tender in 2021, and since that moment, the IMF has been criticizing and opposing this decision. Now, they come with a different approach: equally against bitcoin but with a less challenging claim. “What we have recommended is a narrowing...
This was the warning issued on July 5th by President Nayib Bukele, who during his first term dramatically reduced El Salvador’s homicide rate with his war against the so-called gangs, while turning the country into the one with the highest incarceration rate in...
Authorities have reportedly located and begun excavations at a clandestine grave left by gangs near San Salvador, where they supposedly buried their victims, according to the Movimiento de Trabajadores de la Policía (MTP) (Police Workers’ Movement) of El...
Nayib Bukele, the president of El Salvador, tends to handle certain matters personally rather than delegating them. For instance, shortly after beginning his first term, he accused Mauricio Ramírez Landaverde, the previous minister of public security, of...
In two separate conversations, former presidential security advisor Alejandro Muyshondt assured Ibrajim Bukele, President Nayib Bukele’s brother, and Xavier Zablah Bukele, president of the Nuevas Ideas party and cousin of the president, that he and his...
In summary: 88% of Salvadorans feel safe walking alone at night, according to a Gallup survey based on data from 2023. The Gallup survey measures citizens’ perception, not actual security levels. More than 25 countries in the Western Hemisphere have better...
