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 ...
Bitcoin, crypto firms move to El Salvador, but success rides on banking access
Yet even in El Salvador—the world’s Bitcoin trailblazer, which passed its Bitcoin Law in 2021 and has been steadily adding ...
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Secretary Rubio's Latin America Trip: What Was Achieved?
In this edition of Wilson Center NOW, Benjamin Gedan discusses Secretary of State Rubio’s first international trip to Central America and the Caribbean.
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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.
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El Salvador Dispatch: Berlín, the Bitcoin Marvel Hidden in the Mountains
Berlín, a city of 20,000 people, is home to El Salvador’s second Bitcoin circular economy. “Bitcoin City already exists. It’s ...
El Salvador OK'd migrant prison deal as U.S. paved way for nuclear power
El Salvador's Foreign Minister Alexandra Hill Tinoco said a civil nuclear cooperation agreement with the U.S. would help ...
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El Salvador tests global prison market with US inmate plan
By Alek Buttermann El Salvador's recently floated plans to enter international prison management could represent a Copernican ...
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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 ...