El Salvador government launches new offensive against criminal gangs
The government of El Salvador has launched a new offensive against gangs since May 29 to prevent criminal gangs from...
May 29, 2023Topic
President Nayib Bukele
El-Salvador: troops surround town after killing of a policeman
At least 5,000 soldiers and 500 police have surrounded a town in northwestern El Salvador. They want to arrest those...
May 18, 2023
El Salvador’s president assures his country has the lowest homicide rate in the Americas
El Salvador maintains the lowest homicide rate in the Americas to date with 1.8 per 100,000 inhabitants, highlighted President
February 7, 2023
Mexico’s Volaris airline operates under El Salvador’s flag and will accept bitcoins
Mexican airline Volaris is the second airline to operate under the flag of El Salvador and "the first in the...
October 19, 2021
More than 2 million residents in El Salvador have registered to receive bitcoins
More than 2 million Salvadorans have downloaded a Government digital wallet and registered to receive a bitcoin bonus
September 28, 2021
El Salvador to exempt bitcoin profits from income tax
On Tuesday, September 7, El Salvador became the first country to establish bitcoin as a legal tender on par with...
September 10, 2021
El Salvador’s president asserts that bitcoin use will not be mandatory in the country
President Nayib Bukele has assured that the use of the cryptocurrency will not be mandatory for citizens, explaining further on...
August 23, 2021
Analysis: Bukele to double Salvadoran Army, deploy to gang areas; critics ask why
At the end of the first semester of 2021, El Salvador registered a 10.4% increase in homicides compared to the...
August 3, 2021
Salvadoran government orders editor of El Faro newspaper to leave the country, says editor
The director of the Salvadoran newspaper El Faro, Carlos Dada, denounced on Wednesday that government agents of the Central American...
July 7, 2021