El Salvador in 2025 faces key decisions: mining, political reforms, and security. At what cost will the country move forward?

Onlookers gather at the scene of a homicide in downtown San Salvador, El Salvador’s capital ... In the vacuum of weak governance and poverty in their home country, gang members reproduced ...

American crypto enthusiasts have followed a similar script: making El Salvador a new digital banana republic in which Bitcoin enthusiasts manipulate a poor country’s strong man to extract ...