Back in 2021, El Salvador became the first country in the world to require its citizens to use bitcoin for payments. Last month, four years later, it notched another record: it became the first country to rescind bitcoin’s status as required tender. This...
El Salvador’s Foreign Minister Alexandra Hill Tinoco said a civil nuclear cooperation agreement with the U.S. would help power the central American country “at competitive pricing without depending on geopolitics or on oil prices.” “The...
El Salvador’s recently floated plans to enter international prison management could represent a Copernican shift in global correctional services. The proposal, announced during US Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s visit to the country, would allow...
Georgia Sen. Jon Ossoff is urging the Trump administration to unequivocally reject El Salvador’s offer to hold American citizens in its prison system, condemning President Donald Trump’s initial response to the proposal. The Democrat’s letter, sent Monday and first...
In the late afternoon by the lake, two men look at each other and smile. “Friends,” Nayib Bukele captions his photo with Donald Trump’s Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, in Coatepeque (El Salvador). After the camera clicks, the announcements arrive: the Central...
Farmer William Lozano’s land is a collection of slopes, ravines, and stones. The top of the main slope offers a view of the 5 de Noviembre dam and the Lempa River, the capital’s main source of drinking water. The 44 manzanas (about 31 hectares) that make up his...
