“Imbeciles” This is what the popular Salvadoran president Nayib Bukele called independent journalists in El Salvador after two journalistic investigations revealed how he and five other family members, his three brothers, his wife, and his mother, acquired...
The rating agency, Standard and Poor’s (S&P) Global Ratings, considers the bond buyback announced by the government last week as “opportunistic,” asserting that it could have fulfilled its financial commitments without the need for this...
Summary The president claimed that the Prosecutor’s Office is independent of the Executive, yet the current prosecutor was appointed irregularly by the ruling party. Bukele mentioned there is no unemployment in the construction, tourism, and agriculture sectors;...
According to a university survey released this Thursday, 92% of Salvadorans say they do not use bitcoin for transactions, despite it being legal tender in their country since 2021 and the government’s substantial investment in promoting its adoption. The First...
On October 8 of last year, Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele published a post on X outlining his position on Palestine. “As a Salvadoran of Palestinian ancestry, I’m sure the best thing that could happen to the Palestinian people is for Hamas to completely disappear....
Two and a half months after Nayib Bukele enacted a law exempting the recovery and restoration of properties in the historic center from paying taxes, Lagencia, S.A. de C.V., a company founded and directed by two of his brothers, Karim and Yusef Bukele, bought an over...
