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In El Salvador, emergency edict extended as dragnet stirs criticism

El Salvador extended on Wednesday a state of emergency pushed by President Nayib Bukele, with lawmakers overwhelmingly backing the measure that has given security forces extra powers to fight gangs.

Reuters

Trump news – live: Ex-president shrugs off potential 2024 challenge from Mike Pence

‘Any of my fellow Republicans wanna speak out now’

The Independent UK

Trump slammed for "civil war" post

Conservative critics call out the GOP for their silence on Trump's escalating rhetoric: "They're terrified of him"

Salon

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Trump news - live: Madison Cawthorn facing House Ethics Committee investigation

‘Any of my fellow Republicans wanna speak out now’

The Independent UK

Trump under fire for sharing post ‘calling for civil war’ over US inflation

The tweet from El Salvador’s president was shared as a screenshot on the Truth social site by former Fox Nation host Lara Logan

The Independent UK

Crypto is starting to lose its cool – just look at El Salvador

Fantasies of a Bitcoin City have been undermined by the country’s huge losses in cryptocurrency

The Guardian - UK

In El Salvador's gang crackdown, quotas drive 'arbitrary' arrests of innocents

Dozens of innocent people have been apprehended in El Salvador in recent months amid President Nayib Bukele's "war on gangs," after superiors forced officers to meet daily arrest quotas during a state of emergency, five officials told Reuters.

Reuters

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If You Invested $100 In Bitcoin (BTC) When El Salvador Made It Legal Tender, Here's How Much You'd Have Now

On June 9, 2021, the Central American nation of El Salvador became the first country in the world to adopt Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) as legal tender.

Benzinga

El Salvador spends $15 million on bitcoin to ‘buy the dip’

El Salvador has spent $15.4 million buying bitcoin as the price of the world’s biggest cryptocurrency drops.

Evening Standard

Buying Bitcoin Dip: Tron Founder Justin Sun Follows El Salvador's Nayib Bukele To Load Up 500 BTC

El Salvador's president Nayib Bukele decided to buy the Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) dip and acquire 500 BTC, setting an example that was fo

Benzinga

Mexican leader meets with Salvador president amid crackdown

Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador met with his Salvadoran counterpart, Nayib Bukele, but did not mention rights complaints about El Salvador’s massive roundup of suspected street gang members

The Independent UK

US refuses to invite Cuba to Summit of the Americas in Los Angeles

WASHINGTON — The Biden administration plans to exclude Cuba from the upcoming Summit of the Americas, a major global meeting to be held in Los Angeles in June that typically welcomes all governments in the Western Hemisphere, a senior U.S. official told The Times.

Los Angeles Times

Rights groups cite 338 violations in El Salvador arrests

Five human rights groups say there have been complaints of at least 338 violations of human rights during El Salvador’s massive arrests of suspected gang members

The Independent UK

Mexican president to talk development, migration on tour

Mexico President Andrés Manuel López Obrador begins a lightning tour Thursday to four Central American countries and Cuba in five days to discuss his approach to development and ways it might help alleviate the pressure to migrate

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Rights groups criticize El Salvador's mass gang roundups

Human rights groups are criticizing El Salvador’s massive arrests of suspected gang members

Reason

El Salvador Detains 17,000 'Suspected Gang Members' Without Due Process

President Nayib Bukele extends “state of emergency” for El Salvador—allowing the police to continue to mass arrest people for little, if any, reason.

Reuters

El Salvador extends emergency powers to fight gangs

El Salvador's Congress on Sunday approved a month-long extension of emergency measures that rights groups say infringe civil liberties but which President Nayib Bukele has said are necessary after a surge of gang killings.

The Independent UK

El Salvador president wants to extend state of emergency

President Nayib Bukele has asked El Salvador's congress to extend an anti-gang emergency decree for another 30 days

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The Independent UK

Rights Commission urges El Salvador to respect rights

The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights is calling on the government of El Salvador to respect human rights, after authorities declared a state of emergency and rounded up 14,000 suspected gang members

The Independent UK

El Salvador president's mass arrests 'punitive populism'

El Salvador's security forces have arrested more than 10,000 suspected gang members in just over two weeks under rules that free them from having to explain an arrest or grant access to a lawyer

The Independent UK

Union: El Salvador police pressured to meet arrest cuotas

A police union in El Salvador says some National Civilian Police commanders have been pressuring officers to meet daily arrest quotas as part of the government’s crackdown on street gangs that have yielded more than 10,000 arrests

Los Angeles Times

In response to killings, El Salvador’s bitcoin president attacks civil liberties

SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador — After a dramatic spike in killings here over a single weekend last month, Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele’s reaction was swift — and extreme.

Benzinga

Did Gang Violence Force El Salvador President To Call Off Bitcoin Conference Appearance?

El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele said he is canceling his participation in the upcoming Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) conference due to “unforeseen circumstances” in his home country.

The Independent UK

El Salvador threatens prison for media sharing gang messages

El Salvador’s congress has approved laws that would impose prison sentences of 10 to 15 years for news media that reproduce messages from the country’s street gangs, and that's alarming press freedom groups

Reuters

El Salvador making it harder for murderous gangs to spread messages

Waging a campaign against gangs responsible for El Salvador having one of the world's highest murder rates, Congress in the Central American republic passed a bill on Tuesday criminalizing the publication of gang messages, including by news outlets.

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