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In El Salvador, rising inmate numbers threaten humanitarian crisis: NGO

Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele's war against the country's criminal gangs could generate prison overcrowding and even a violent reaction from criminals, said a report by the NGO International Crisis Group (ICG) released Tuesday.

Reuters

In El Salvador, army surrounds town to root out gang

More than 2,000 soldiers and police surrounded and closed off a town in El Salvador in order to search for street gang members accused in a killing

The Independent UK

Ex-El Salvador soccer chief sentenced to 16 months in FIFA corruption case

The former president of El Salvador's soccer federation was sentenced on Thursday to 16 months in U.S. prison after pleading guilty to a charge arising from a global soccer corruption probe involving the payment of bribes to stage and broadcast matches.

Reuters

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At least seven dead after landslides in El Salvador

At least seven people have died and one was injured in El Salvador after rains triggered landslides, authorities said on Thursday.

Reuters

S&P says it could downgrade El Salvador in 6-18 months

SP Global Ratings said on Friday it could cut El Salvador's already negative credit rating within six to 18 months if it does not make "adequate progress" on debt reduction, days after the government announced plans to buy back sovereign bonds.

Reuters

Bitcoin-Loving El Salvador President Nayib Bukele Running For Reelection: Here's How The Crypto Performed Since Becoming Legal Tender In The Country

In June 2021, El Salvador became the first country to make cryptocurrency Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) legal tender.

Benzinga

Despite prohibition, El Salvador President Bukele says he will seek re-election

El Salvador President Nayib Bukele said Thursday he would run for re-election, despite the country's constitution prohibiting presidents from having consecutive terms.

Reuters

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El Salvador's president Bukele says he will seek re-election

El Salvador President Nayib Bukele has announced on the country’s Independence Day that he will seek re-election to a second five-year term

The Independent UK

One year on, El Salvador's Bitcoin experiment has proven a spectacular failure

A year ago, El Salvador became the first country to make Bitcoin legal tender – alongside the US dollar, which the Central American country adopted in 2001 to replace its own currency, the colón.

The Conversation

‘Tale of two borders’: how a US Covid-era rule shapes fate of migrants

Title 42 bans all migrants from entering the country over spread of Covid – but the rule is largely enforced against Mexicans and people from Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador

The Guardian - US

Bitcoin 'revolution' a work in progress

El Salvador President Nayib Bukele took the stage to fireworks, announcing to a cheering crowd of crypto enthusiasts at a beachside confab that Bitcoin would revolutionise his country.

Bangkok Post

US official: Tip, mom tracked murder suspect in El Salvador

U.S. prosecutors say a tip along with the perseverance of the mother of a woman killed in San Diego in 2016 led to the arrest of her boyfriend who fled to El Salvador and was captured there last month

The Independent UK

Behind bars: Latin America women prisons as seen by Ana Maria Arévalo

Photographer Ana Maria Arévalo "Dias Eternos" focuses on the condition in detention centers and jails for women in Venezuela, El Salvador and Guatemala.

Radio France Internationale

Fugitive Marine on US Marshals ‘Most Wanted’ list arrested for girlfriend’s 2016 murder

Raymond “RJ” McLeod, a former Marine put on the U.S. Marshals Most Wanted List, was captured in El Salvador just more than six years after he allegedly murdered his then-girlfriend inside a California apartment.

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The Independent UK

US Marshals capture their most wanted man

‘Avid bodybuilder and a heavy drinker’ allegedly found teaching English in El Salvador

Tribune News Service

4 places to discover the Mayan world in Mexico and Central America

Mexico, Belize, El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras are celebrating three decades of founding the Mayan World Organization (Organización Mundo Maya), which focuses on improving the quality of life of the region's residents through sustainable tourism policies.

The Independent UK

El Salvador extends state of exception; 50,000 arrested

Some 50,000 people have been locked up in El Salvador since late March for alleged gang ties and the country's congress has now approved another month-long extension of the state of exception that suspends some rights in the name of combatting gangs

Reuters

In El Salvador, discrepancy over deaths and mass graves alarms critics

In El Salvador, testimony from police officers and conflicting statistics on mass graves are leading critics to question if homicides in the Central American country are being fully reported as access to official information tightens.

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The Independent UK

El Salvador extends state of exception in gang crackdown

El Salvador’s congress has granted President Nayib Bukele another 30-day extension of the state of exception that has suspended fundamental rights since a surge in gang killings in late March

Input

Netflix's password-sharing crackdown has already begun

Early tests in Argentina, the Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras reveal a fee of $2.99 per extra home.

Reuters

El Salvador finance minister says possible IMF deal no panacea

Salvadoran Finance Minister Alejandro Zelaya minimized on Thursday the potential positive impact of a long-delayed deal with the International Monetary Fund, even as the highly indebted country stares down a possible medium-term default.

Salon

50 year sentence for pregnancy loss

Laws like El Salvador's are "now being replicated in states across the U.S.," noted one observer

Daily Mirror

Woman who suffered miscarriage jailed for 50 years for breaking abortion laws

The young woman from El Salvador was accused of failing to protect the baby under the nation's harsh abortion laws and has been sentenced to 50 years behind bars by a judge

Reuters

El Salvador woman's 50-year jail sentence outrages abortion rights group

A woman in El Salvador has been sentenced to 50 years in prison for aggravated homicide in a controversial case in which authorities argued she had killed her baby after giving birth, while her defenders said she had suffered a miscarriage.

The Guardian - US

‘Each day is agony’: the lives swept up in El Salvador’s mass arrests

As President Nayib Bukele arrests tens of thousands over gang fears, activists and family members grapple with the fallout

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