El Salvador’s Congress has ratified a constitutional reform that will make it easier and faster to make constitutional changes in the future, a change critics say will allow President Nayib Bukele and his party to further consolidate power.
Nayib Bukele, El Salvador’s iconic Bitcoin-loving president, just fired shots at former US Senator Bob Menendez, who was sentenced to 11 years in prison on Jan. 29 after investigators found gold bars and half a million in cash hidden in his house.
El Salvador's Congress on Wednesday swiftly approved a bill sent just minutes earlier by President Nayib Bukele to amend its bitcoin law to comply with a deal with a key international lender to make acceptance of the cryptocurrency voluntary.
The Nayib Bukele administration of El Salvador has signaled to the Trump administration that it is willing to take in deported immigrants from other countries, but it likely has its own incentives to striking a deal,
President Nayib Bukele mocked Bitcoin critic & former U.S. Senator Bob Menendez, who was sentenced to 11 years in prison for bribery.
The archbishop did not mention any politicians by name—much less El Salvador’s popular president, Nayib Bukele, who pillories critics on social media and lets few slights go unchallenged. But he voiced deep opposition to a proposal being pushed through the National Assembly that day to roll back a ban on mining in the Central American country.
Built to house El Salvador's most dangerous gangsters, conditions at the maximum-security "Terrorism Confinement Center" (CECOT) are slammed by rights groups as inhumane.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio is planning on discussing the matter during his visit to the country in the coming days
Trump to discuss crypto adoption with El Salvador’s Bukele, signaling rising global interest in Bitcoin and blockchain technology.
A court in El Salvador has sentenced three youths to five years in prison and put five more on probation after they were arrested last year following the public release of a video of them making gang signs inside a school.
The Trump administration is developing an asylum agreement with El Salvador’s government that would allow the U.S. to deport migrants to the small Central American country who are not from there.
Bitfinex Securities announced it plans to issue Blockstream Mining Note 2 (BMN2) in El Salvador in the first quarter of this year.