The gentrification process in San Salvador goes far beyond a simple change in the city’s appearance. It is a strategy of control and social exclusion that reinforces power structures and perpetuates inequality. Its goal is to eliminate any form of resistance and...
As the United States struggles to get even basic crypto legislation off the starting line, one small nation went all in on blockchain — and it’s going about as well as you’d expect. That country is El Salvador, home to the native Pipil people of Cuscatlán,...
A new review of the Bitcoin blockchain concludes that 6,111 of the 6,114 Bitcoins that make up the Salvadoran government’s alleged strategic reserve in this cryptocurrency come from a Bitfinex wallet, a company headed by two Italian businessmen with significant...
Infectious disease specialist Dr. Jorge Panameño lamented that the Ministerio de Salud (Ministry of Health) has not yet provided public information about what is known as hand, foot, and mouth disease, despite the number of reported cases rising, particularly in the...
Wendy Monterrosa and her colleagues founded news site Voz Pública in El Salvador in 2020. A year into Nayib Bukele’s presidency, marked by frequent attacks on journalists, Voz Pública built a small newsroom focused on fact-checking and investigative journalism. But...
When Nayib Bukele launched his presidential campaign in the eastern department of La Unión in 2018, the new outsider politician stood in a street packed with supporters and promised a new airport. La Unión and the rest of El Salvador’s eastern region have historically...
