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El Salvador has day without murder under state of emergency

El Salvador experienced its first day without a killing since imposing a state of emergency following a rash of gang violence last weekend

The Independent UK

El Salvador forces encircle neighborhoods in gang crackdown

El Salvador’s security forces have intensified their operations against the country’s street gangs with mass arrests, the cordoning off of entire neighborhoods and house-by-house searches under a state of emergency sought by President Nayib Bukele

The Independent UK

El Salvador arrests 600 gang suspects, cuts food for inmates

The government of El Salvador has arrested more than 600 gang suspects and ordered reductions in food for inmates, after a wave of killings over the weekend

The Independent UK

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El Salvador declares state of emergency over spike in gang killings

San Salvador (AFP) - El Salvadoran lawmakers on Sunday declared a state of emergency at President Nayib Bukele's request, expanding police powers and curtailing civil liberties as the country faces soaring gang-related bloodshed that has left dozens dead in just two days.

AFP

El Salvador declares state of emergency as gang murders soar

El Salvador’s National Assembly in an early morning session on Sunday approved a state of emergency request made by President Nayib Bukele to tame a wave of gang-related killings over the weekend.

Tribune News Service

El Salvador declares state of emergency over gang murders after 62 killings in one day

Wave of bloodshed over weekend believed to be linked to country’s notorious and powerful street gangs

The Independent UK

El Salvador invokes emergency powers after surge in homicides

El Salvador's Congress approved on Sunday emergency powers that temporarily suspended some constitutional protections after the Central American country recorded a sharp rise in killings attributed to criminal gangs.

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El Salvador President Dubs Reports Of Delay In Bitcoin Bonds Issue As 'FUD'

Nayib Bukele, the president of El Salvador, appealed to his 3.6 million Twitter Inc (NYSE: TWTR) followers to not spread “Reuters FUD.”

Benzinga

US Lawmakers Want To Investigate El Salvador's Bitcoin Adoption; Bukele Says 'We Will Stand For Freedom'

Senators James Risch (R-Idaho), Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) and Bill Cassidy (R-La.) introduced the "Accountability for Cryptocurrency in El Salvador (ACES) Act" to investigate the impact of El Salvador's adoption of Bitcoin (CRYPTO:

Benzinga

El Salvador Taps Binance To Help With Bitcoin Adoption: What You Need To Know

El Salvador, the first country to adopt Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) as legal tender, is turning to Binance for help in its quest to issue bonds denominated in the apex coin.

Benzinga

Commentary: Democracy is a victim of indifference

As President Joe Biden said in his State of the Union address, the ongoing crisis in Ukraine has starkly illustrated “the battle between democracy and autocracy,” and new research from Freedom House underscores just how dire this crisis of global democracy has become.

Tribune News Service

Malaysia May Be the Next Country to Make Bitcoin Legal Tender

A Malaysian government official on calls his country to adopt bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies, following El Salvador's lead.

The Street

El Salvador's president buys Bitcoins 'naked,' he boasts. His experiment is costing his nation millions

SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador — Four months into El Salvador's experiment as the first and only country in the world to adopt Bitcoin as legal currency, the International Monetary Fund had seen enough.

Los Angeles Times

Bukele to propose granting Salvadoran citizenship to foreign investors

El Salvador President Nayib Bukele on Sunday said he will send Congress a proposal to grant citizenship to foreigners who invest in the Central American country as well as other initiatives to reduce government hurdles in order to attract investment projects.

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Los Angeles Times

In Latin America's new Cold War, will China lift up autocrats?

SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador — El Salvador's president and the Chinese ambassador traded flatteries this month as they broke ground on a new national library, one of a slew of gifts China has promised this small mountainous nation as part of its vigorous quest to gain influence across Central America.

Benzinga

El Salvador President Takes Shots At Joe Biden As Senate Proposal Questions Central American Country's Bitcoin Adoption

El Salvador President Nayib Bukele has taken a dig at U.S.

Reuters

El Salvador's Bukele tells bitcoin-wary U.S. senators to stay out of internal affairs

President Nayib Bukele on Wednesday asked U.S. senators to stay out of El Salvador's "internal affairs" after they called for an investigation into the economic risks the United States faces due to the Central American country's adoption of bitcoin as legal tender.

The Conversation

'Worthy of a Bond villain': the bizarre history of libertarian attempts to create independent cities

Late last year, El Salvador’s president Nayib Bukele announced plans to build “Bitcoin City” – a tax-free territory in the country’s east.

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Benzinga

El Salvador's President Predicts 'Gigantic Price Increase' For Bitcoin

The president of El Salvador, Nayib Bukele is going all bullish on Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) despite a recent lull in price action. At the time of publication, Bitcoin was trading at $37,227, down 1.96% in the last 24 hours.

Benzinga

Edward Snowden, Nayib Bukele And Others Reacts To IMF Wanting El Salvador To Drop Bitcoin: 'Somebody Sounds Nervous'

Former intelligence contractor Edward Snowden took aim at the International Monetary Fund (IMF) for dishing out advice to El Salvador on its use of Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) as legal tender.

AFP

IMF urges El Salvador to remove bitcoin as legal tender

Washington (AFP) - The IMF on Tuesday called on El Salvador to change course and stop using bitcoin as legal tender, citing "large risks" posed by the cryptocurrency.

The Independent UK

IMF urges El Salvador to drop Bitcoin as legal tender

The International Monetary Fund wants El Salvador to drop the highly volatile cryptocurrency Bitcoin as legal tender and strictly regulate the electronic wallet the government has pushed adoption of across the country

Benzinga

Bitcoin May Be Plunging Hard, But Look Who's Buying The Dip

The sell-off seen in the crypto space is continuing into the weekend, and Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC), the apex crypto, is no exception.

The Street

El Salvador's President Says The Country is Buying The Bitcoin Dip

"El Salvador just bought 410 #bitcoin for only 15 million dollars," the country's president wrote on Twitter.

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