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Mauricio Funes: Journalist Turned El Salvador President

El Salvador's ex-president Mauricio Funes died Tuesday at the age of 65 in Nicaragua, where he fled two years after leaving office and gained asylum following accusations of corruption in his country.

International Business Times

‘Has the world gone mad? It has’: foreign reporters share a view of Trump from abroad

Journalists from countries that have seen challenges to democracy give their view on the second Trump presidency

The Guardian - US

Temporary protected status: Who is protected by Biden’s latest extension?

One of Joe Biden’s final acts on immigration was to extend four grants of Temporary Protected Status – covering nearly one million immigrants from Venezuela, El Salvador, Ukraine, and Sudan – through to 2026.

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MS-13 Leader in New York Pleads Guilty In Case Involving Seven Murders, Arson, and Drug Trafficking

The victims, ranging from suspected rival gang members to schoolgirls, were brutally attacked with machetes and baseball bats.

Latin Times

Tether Is Relocating To Bitcoin Country El Salvador, Nayib Bukele Welcomes $USDT Issuer 'Home'

Tether will soon complete the formalities needed to relocate to El Salvador, marking the most significant development in the country's bid toward attracting crypto business providers.

International Business Times

Biden Administration Extends Temporary Deportation Protections For Immigrants

Biden administration extends Temporary Protected Status for immigrants from El Salvador, Sudan, Ukraine, and Venezuela, providing relief from deportation.

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Biden extends temporary protections for more than 800,000 immigrants

US president moves to shield roughly 230,000 Salvadorans and 600,000 Venezuelans against Trump administration

The Guardian - US

‘I Have So Much Fear That They’re Going to Torture Me’

The U.S. keeps deporting people back to El Salvador, where they're likely to be imprisoned and tortured.

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El Salvador closes 2024 with a record low number of homicides

El Salvador closed 2024 with a record low 114 homicides, continuing notable security gains under a second full year of a state of emergency that has given the government extraordinary powers and curtailed some fundamental rights

The Independent UK

‘Live sick or flee’: pollution fears for El Salvador’s rivers as mining ban lifted

The landmark prohibition on mining in 2017, a world first, has been reversed by authoritarian leader Nayib Bukele but the move has met fierce resistance from environmentalists

The Guardian - UK

'Buy Bitcoin' Trends On X As El Salvador's Strategic Reserve Hits 6,000 $BTC

X is teeming with "Buy Bitcoin" posts as $BTC struggles to break above $95,000 following a $99,000 surge last week – will new holders take the advice of veteran holders to buy the dip?

International Business Times

Latin America’s rise in tuberculosis linked to imprisonment rates

Study warns region’s exponential rise in incarceration is fuelling the disease, with cases increasing by 19% between 2015 and 2022

The Guardian - UK

El Salvador's Congress approves ending ban on metals mining

El Salvador's Congress has approved a law that would lift the country’s seven-year-old ban on mining for metals

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Still $BTC Country: 'Headlines About The IMF Are Wrong,' Says El Salvador Bitcoin Office Director

El Salvador had to concede to some of the IMF's conditions to reach an agreement with the UN financial agency for a massive loan that could help boost its ailing economy, but it clarified Sunday that it will not give up on its Bitcoin strategic reserve.

The Guardian - US

International court rules against El Salvador in key abortion rights case

Court finds Central American country violated rights of a pregnant woman who was denied an abortion in 2013

International Business Times

Court Rules Against El Salvador In Controversial Abortion Case

The Inter-American Court of Human Rights on Friday ruled against El Salvador for barring a woman from getting an abortion, despite her life being at risk and her fetus being unviable.

Latin Times

El Salvador Plans To Sell Or Shut Its Crypto Wallet

The announcement came after the Central American nation's government reached a $1.4 billion loan deal with the International Monetary Fund that addressed its controversial embrace of bitcoin.

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IMF Pressures El Salvador To Stop Pushing Bitcoin

In exchange, the government is getting a $1.4 billion loan.

International Business Times

Bitcoin Country No More? El Salvador Bends To Secure IMF Loan

El Salvador has reached an agreement with IMF staff to secure a $3.5 billion funding package, but not without consequences that could hit Nayib Bukele's grandiose vision of a "Bitcoin country."

International Business Times

$BTC Hits $108,000 As Experts Clash Over US Bitcoin Strategic Reserve

Bitcoin once again hit another price record Tuesday night amid optimism over a U.S. $BTC reserve, but not everyone is convinced a Bitcoin fund will work – what are the experts saying?

The Conversation

Democracy across the Americas is in crisis

Political crises are rocking several nations of the Americas. From El Salvador and Venezuela to Bolivia, Argentina and the United States, political crises are posing serious challenges to democratic institutions.

Latin Times

Trump Is Also Approaching El Salvador About Potentially Receiving Deportees

The transition team has reached out to the country through back channels. It is unclear whether the Bukele government will be open to the possibility

Reason

El Salvador's New Cybersecurity Laws Raise Concerns Over Media Freedom

Proponents call it modernization, but watchdogs see a path to censorship.

International Business Times

Bitcoin Tops $106,000 For The First Time – What's Next For World's Top Crypto?

Bitcoin has exceeded $106,000, breaking its previous all-time highs amid high hopes for an American national strategic $BTC reserve after Texas, a pro-crypto state, introduced a bill to establish a state Bitcoin reserve.

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