Then there was his crypto fixation. In 2021 El Salvador became the first country to make bitcoin legal tender, alongside the ...

El Salvador' Law changes helped the country to secure up to $3.5 billion, despite some criticism among Bitcoin advocates.

Two studies released this week, by Freedom House and the Economist Intelligence Unit, found international democracy in ...

El Salvador has approved a new law to promote AI development. The law includes a zero percent tax rate on AI innovation, ...

El Salvador added Bitcoin as their second official currency. No tax? Fully legal? Decentralized? What's not to love! The only ...

The “total fertility rate” is a coarse estimate of the number of children an average woman will bear. A population will be ...

Varicella, known as chickenpox, is caused by the varicella zoster virus (VZV), with an estimated 84 million cases annually. It primarily affects children, for most of whom it is a self-limiting ...

President Nayib Bukele vowed to build Bitcoin City on the Conchagua volcano. CoinDesk went looking for signs of construction.

In El Salvador, about two hours away from the capital, up in the mountains, lies a town named Berlín. It’s a mid-sized city by Salvadoran standards, with a population of roughly 20,000.

El Salvador ... once one of the world's most violent countries has fallen, the treatment of those imprisoned has triggered outrage among human rights organizations who call El Salvador's prisons ...

More than 1% of the national population is now imprisoned — including ... he showered praise on the 43-year-old El Salvador leader. And Bukele responded in kind. This week he offered to let ...

At the time, Bukele tweeted: “El Salvador has managed to go from being the world’s most dangerous ... that in March 2024 El Salvador — population 6.36 million — held 110,000 people ...