El Salvador Dispatch: How Bitcoin Taught a Nation to Dream
This article is part of a four-piece series on El Salvador. You can find the previous dispatch, a story on El Zonte, ...
Inside El Salvador's notorious CECOT mega-prison, which could soon house deportees from the U.S.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced last week that President Nayib Bukele of El Salvador had agreed to accept deportees from the U.S. convicted of crimes, and also offered to house incarcerated ...
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El Salvador Dispatch: The Origins of the Bitcoin Experiment
El Zonte inspired Bukele to make bitcoin legal tender in El Salvador. CoinDesk visited the surfing village to see how it’s ...
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El Salvador Dispatch: Searching for Bitcoin City, the Modern El Dorado
President Nayib Bukele vowed to build Bitcoin City on the Conchagua volcano. CoinDesk went looking for signs of construction.
When El Salvador agreed to put migrants in "mega-prison," the U.S. paved the way for nuclear power
Bukele said he would charge the United States a "relatively low" fee to house convicted criminals in El Salvador's Terrorism Confinement Center, or CECOT, a mega-prison built to hold up to 40,000 ...
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The Laidback Wonder of El Zonte, El Salvador's Latest Surfer Magnet
The crash and hum of the ocean is everywhere in El Zonte, a small town on the lush Pacific coast of El Salvador about an hour ...
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Rubio and Bukele to discuss sending suspected gang members from US to El Salvador
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio will discuss the possibility of deporting suspected Tren de Aragua gang members to El Salvador in ... is expected to arrive in San Salvador on Monday.
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Philippines’ Marcos seeks reassurances from Trump over alliance
The Philippines’ top diplomat in Washington is optimistic of a White House meeting between President Ferdinand Marcos Jr and Donald Trump in the spring as the former leader seeks assurances of ...
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Marcos says 59% satisfaction rating ‘very encouraging’
MANILA, Philippines — President Ferdinand “Bongbong” R. Marcos Jr. on Friday described the latest Social Weather Stations (SWS) survey, which showed that more than half of Filipinos are ...
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GTA San Andreas cheats can provide you with a significant boost if you want to raise CJ to the top of the gang wars, or take control of the world around you. Unlike some of the other GTA ...
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Francis Leo Marcos withdraws from 2025 Senate race
MANILA, Philippines — Francis Leo Marcos on Thursday withdrew from the 2025 Senate race. Marcos, who is Norman Mangusin in real life, went to Palacio Del Gobernador personally to file his certificate ...
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Former El Salvador President Mauricio Funes who lived in exile in Nicaragua dies at 65
Former El Salvador President Mauricio Funes, who spent the final years of his life in Nicaragua to avoid various criminal sentences, died late Tuesday (January 21, 2025). He was 65. Nicaragua’s ...