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

While numerous Mayan discoveries and archeological sites can be found throughout Central America, the distinctiveness of Joya ...

El Salvador still has 688 Bitcoin in reserve, worth an estimated $574 million, of which $287 million is profit.

Recent criminal law reforms in El Salvador that expand punitive measures against minors violate children's rights, Amnesty International said Thursday. The amendment, approved February 12, permits ...

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

El Zonte inspired Bukele to make bitcoin legal tender in El Salvador. CoinDesk visited the surfing village to see how it’s ...

The state of exception has led to the imprisonment of more than 80,000 people, making El Salvador the country with the highest incarceration rate in the world, at 2%. But the crackdown has earned ...

El Salvador's Foreign Minister Alexandra Hill Tinoco said a civil nuclear cooperation agreement with the U.S. would help power the central American country "at competitive pricing ...

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 ...

Marco Rubio, made his inaugural trip as secretary of State to Latin America this week, he showered praise on the 43-year-old El Salvador leader ... to call himself the world’s coolest dictator.

At the time, Bukele tweeted: “El Salvador has managed to go from being the world’s most dangerous country, to the safest country in the Americas. How did we do it? By putting criminals in jail.

While El Salvador once had one of the world’s highest murder rates, killings have plummeted as Mr. Bukele has used a state-of-emergency declaration and the military to arrest tens of thousands ...