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El Salvador’s controversial crackdown on gangs

Human rights groups may be raising the alarm over El Salvador’s brutal crackdown on gang violence, but the policy is winning huge support for the country’s young president both at home and abroad.

The Week

Binance becomes fully licensed in El Salvador, where 'Philosopher King' Bukele pushed to make Bitcoin legal tender in 2021

Binance and El Salvador are each fighting their own crypto-related battles.

Fortune

A funeral home in El Salvador offers pink coffins with Barbie linings

A funeral home in El Salvador has taken Barbie mania to an extreme, offering pink coffins with Barbie linings

The Independent UK

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El Salvador clears way for mass trials as crackdown on gangs ramps up

Congress passes bill that could allow 900 people to be tried together if they are accused of being in the same criminal group

The Guardian - US

El Salvador plans mass trials for those imprisoned in gang crackdown

New rules passed by El Salvador’s congress will allow courts to try accused gang members in group trials, in an effort to expedite tens of thousands of criminal cases for those detained under the country’s crackdown on street gangs

The Independent UK

Pregnant migrants at US border say Texas soldiers denied them water

Women from Honduras and El Salvador recount border experience as justice department investigates ‘troubling reports’

The Guardian - US

State Department sanctions 2 former Salvadoran leaders, dozens of officials in Central America

The State Department says it's imposing sanctions on two former Salvadoran presidents and dozens of other officials and judges in Central America

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Salvadoran government accused of doctoring true extent of Covid deaths

A Salvadoran newspaper reported 15,956 people died from the disease, three times more than President Bukele’s official numbers

The Guardian - US

Honduras wants to build West's only island prison colony and lock gangsters inside

Honduras plans to build the only island prison colony in the Western Hemisphere and send its most-feared gangsters there

The Independent UK

Life imitates art as El Salvador pressures book fair to bar dissenting writer

Barbers on Strike, author Michelle Recinos’s collection of short stories, has apparently upset strongman president Nayib Bukele

The Guardian - US

El Salvador President Nayib Bukele nominated for re-election despite constitutional questions

President Nayib Bukele of El Salvador has been nominated by his New Ideas party to run for reelection in next year’s contest

The Independent UK

Fleeing rape, beatings and murder, migrant families find solace at shelter in Mexicali

In a small room with one light bulb and six bunk beds, Jhosseline Estefanie Argeta Morales, 31, of El Salvador sits on a lower bed organizing a small bag of toiletries at Cobina Posada Del Migrante, a shelter for migrant families in Mexicali, Mexico.

Los Angeles Times

Amid criticism over his war on gangs, El Salvador's President Bukele turns to sports

The 2023 Central American and Caribbean Games have offered El Salvador President Bukele an opportunity

The Independent UK

The Guardian view on El Salvador’s crime crackdown: a short-term, high cost fix

Editorial: President Nayib Bukele’s hardline campaign against gangs has won admirers at home and abroad. Look closer and its flaws are glaring

The Guardian - UK

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Miami Herald

Where all four groups stand after Round 1 of the Gold Cup group stage

MIAMI — Tuesday marked the last day of an eventful Round 1 in the group stage of the Gold Cup. After the first round, here’s a look at how all of the groups have played so far and what’s next for each team.

The Independent UK

Honduras copies El Salvador's playbook in anti-gang crackdown

Observers say that a crackdown in Honduras on gangs in the nation’s prisons is eerily similar to one carried out last year in neighboring El Salvador by President Nayib Bukele

The Independent UK

Honduras pool hall shooting may be linked to prison massacre that killed 46, say police

Honduras has started an El Salvador-style mass sweep of prisons and arrested a suspect in a pool-hall shooting last week that killed 11 people

The Independent UK

El Salvador's president registers for reelection despite constitutional objections

El Salvador's president has registered for reelection in next February’s contest even though legal experts and opposition figures who say the country’s constitution prohibits it

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Reason

Europe's Bitcoin-Busting Mistake

The E.U.'s new virtual currency regulations will endanger privacy and trigger an exodus of tech talent from Europe, hobbling its role in the future of finance.

AAP

Near miss for Aussie Tyler Wright at El Salvador Pro

Australia's Tyler Wright has gone down to Caroline Marks in the final of the El Salvador Pro world surf event, maintaining her world No.2 ranking.

The Independent UK

Pastors find a role ministering to young men swept up in El Salvador's crackdown on gangs

Over the past 15 months, El Salvador’s security forces have jailed tens of thousands of people in a massive crackdown on the country’s notorious gangs

AAP

Storm scuppers El Salvador surf event for fourth day

The wait goes on for Aussie surfers Steph Gilmore, Tyler Wright and Liam O'Brien, with their El Salvador Pro semi-finals delayed for a fourth-straight day.

The National (Scotland)

Watch Celtic star Kyogo Furuhashi net impressive goal on Japan international return

This is the moment Kyogo Furuhashi netted for Japan against El Salvador in an international friendly clash this afternoon.

Glasgow Live

Celtic star Kyogo Furuhashi scores for Japan as Reo Hatate starts in thumping win over El Salvador

The Hoops striker - who netted 34 club goals in all competitions last season - took that scoring touch onto the international scene as he climbed off the bench to net Japan's sixth goal of the game

AAP

Wait goes on at El Salvador world surf event

The WSL's El Salvador Pro has called another lay-day, leaving Australian surfers Steph Gilmore, Tyler Wright and Liam O'Brien stalled at the semi-final stage.

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