On the aforementioned October 31st, M. left her aunt’s house to go to a schoolmate’s house to lend her a notebook and catch up on her lessons, as she had missed several classes due to health issues. It was around 4:30 p.m. and the effects of Tropical Storm...
The rape of a 13-year-old girl on October 31st in the Bosques del Río neighborhood, in the municipality of Soyapango, brings the total known cases of sexual assault by members of the Armed Forces of El Salvador to three, including two victims of the same age. Despite...
Poverty in Latin America has slightly decreased compared to 2019, reveals the Social Panorama of Latin America report by ECLAC. The study, presented on Thursday, details that the poverty rate reached 29% in 2022, 1.2% less than in 2019, before the pandemic; while the...
El Salvador’s public debt has increased by $9,116.8 million in just 51 of the 53 months of Nayib Bukele’s administration, as reflected in the most recent Public Debt Profile Report from the Ministry of Finance, updated until September. This means that...
Pro-Bitcoin presidential candidate Javier Milei has won the Argentina presidential run-off election, beating his opponent Sergio Massa. Several Bitcoin proponents including MicroStrategy’s Michael Saylor, BitMEX’s Arthur Hayes, and Elon Musk congratulated Milei on the...
Since El Salvador was placed under a state of emergency to fight gang violence almost 20 months ago, its homicide rate has dropped dramatically and the popularity of its president, Nayib Bukele, has soared to 90% – more than any other leader in Latin America. But even...
