El Salvador expects to reach agreement with the IMF in the next two to three weeks on a $1.3bn loan programme in return for changes to its pioneering use of bitcoin as legal tender and reductions in government deficits, according to two people close to the talks. An...
The number of Salvadorans detained in Mexico due to irregular migration status throughout 2024 has increased compared to 2023. This is evidenced by figures from the Unidad de Política Migratoria, Registro e Identidad de Personas (Migration Policy, Registration and...
In late 2022, Honduran President Xiomara Castro declared “war on extortion,” imposing a “state of exception” to fight the country’s street gangs. The emergency decree covered high-crime areas in the country’s two largest cities, Tegucigalpa and San Pedro Sula,...
The Discourse of “Responsible Mining” In a recent television broadcast, the president argued that opposing mining is absurd, stating that “there is no country where mining is not exploited.” He added that denying this industry is denying...
The President of the Republic, Nayib Bukele, affirmed this Thursday that he will request the repeal of the Law Banning Metallic Mining, as his government has shown interest in reviving this industry in El Salvador. This law was passed in April 2017. It was a genuine...
“One of the serious implications of mining is that it requires too much water, and we already have water stress in the country,” said Rafael Gómez Escoto, PhD in Physics and director of the School of Physics at the University of El Salvador, on the La...
