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...
The effort to publicly ignore the huge problem ahead has been blatant. Several officials of Nayib Bukele’s Government, including himself, have acted as if nothing happened. But something did happen, something very serious. On Tuesday, November 9th of this year,...
How much sequin is needed to divert attention from the human rights violations of an authoritarian regime and from the future dictator? For El Salvador, all the yards that are necessary, including spotlights and all the paraphernalia and the pink press that comes with...
