Then there was his crypto fixation. In 2021 El Salvador became the first country to make bitcoin legal tender, alongside the ...
President Bukele and a16z discuss tech investments, AI development, and positioning El Salvador as a regional tech hub.
New U.S. policies risk perpetuating a cycle of violence and abuse that has for decades undermined the rights of Salvadorans ...
For much of the time since Nayib Bukele became president in 2019, El Salvador has teetered on the brink of default.
El Salvador’s strongman President Nayib Bukele announced his country has offered the U.S. the opportunity to “outsource part of its prison system.” ...
El Salvador's offer to house deportees and U.S. citizens in its infamous prisons – for profit – signals a new and troubling ...
El Salvador has finally begun building “Bitcoin City Airport,” an air transport hub that will supposedly one day link Bitcoin ...
Under U.S. immigration law, a country such as El Salvador can accept someone deported from the U.S. who isn’t a citizen of ...
A U.S. official said the Trump administration had no current plans to try to deport American citizens—but said Bukele’s offer was significant.
El Salvador still has 688 Bitcoin in reserve, worth an estimated $574 million, of which $287 million is profit.
Current laws “would categorically preclude most U.S. citizens and residents from serving their sentence in El Salvador,” a former U.S. attorney said.