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As free press withers in El Salvador, pro-government social media influencers grow in power

An expanding network of social media personalities is amplifying and echoing President Nayib Bukele of El Salvador

The Independent UK

El Salvador’s controversial crackdown on gangs

Human rights groups may be raising the alarm over El Salvador’s brutal crackdown on gang violence, but the policy is winning huge support for the country’s young president both at home and abroad.

The Week

Binance becomes fully licensed in El Salvador, where 'Philosopher King' Bukele pushed to make Bitcoin legal tender in 2021

Binance and El Salvador are each fighting their own crypto-related battles.

Fortune

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El Salvador clears way for mass trials as crackdown on gangs ramps up

Congress passes bill that could allow 900 people to be tried together if they are accused of being in the same criminal group

The Guardian - US

El Salvador plans mass trials for those imprisoned in gang crackdown

New rules passed by El Salvador’s congress will allow courts to try accused gang members in group trials, in an effort to expedite tens of thousands of criminal cases for those detained under the country’s crackdown on street gangs

The Independent UK

State Department sanctions 2 former Salvadoran leaders, dozens of officials in Central America

The State Department says it's imposing sanctions on two former Salvadoran presidents and dozens of other officials and judges in Central America

The Independent UK

Honduras wants to build West's only island prison colony and lock gangsters inside

Honduras plans to build the only island prison colony in the Western Hemisphere and send its most-feared gangsters there

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A wave of political turbulence is rolling through Guatemala and other Central American countries

Central America is experiencing a wave of unrest that is remarkable even for a region whose history is riddled with turbulence

The Independent UK

Life imitates art as El Salvador pressures book fair to bar dissenting writer

Barbers on Strike, author Michelle Recinos’s collection of short stories, has apparently upset strongman president Nayib Bukele

The Guardian - US

El Salvador President Nayib Bukele nominated for re-election despite constitutional questions

President Nayib Bukele of El Salvador has been nominated by his New Ideas party to run for reelection in next year’s contest

The Independent UK

Amid criticism over his war on gangs, El Salvador's President Bukele turns to sports

The 2023 Central American and Caribbean Games have offered El Salvador President Bukele an opportunity

The Independent UK

The Guardian view on El Salvador’s crime crackdown: a short-term, high cost fix

Editorial: President Nayib Bukele’s hardline campaign against gangs has won admirers at home and abroad. Look closer and its flaws are glaring

The Guardian - UK

Honduras copies El Salvador's playbook in anti-gang crackdown

Observers say that a crackdown in Honduras on gangs in the nation’s prisons is eerily similar to one carried out last year in neighboring El Salvador by President Nayib Bukele

The Independent UK

Honduras pool hall shooting may be linked to prison massacre that killed 46, say police

Honduras has started an El Salvador-style mass sweep of prisons and arrested a suspect in a pool-hall shooting last week that killed 11 people

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El Salvador's president registers for reelection despite constitutional objections

El Salvador's president has registered for reelection in next February’s contest even though legal experts and opposition figures who say the country’s constitution prohibits it

The Guardian - US

Gang members locked women in cells before Honduras prison riot fire

Armed people went into rival gang’s cell block, opened fire and used oil to set fire, police officer says after 46 women killed

The Independent UK

Pastors find a role ministering to young men swept up in El Salvador's crackdown on gangs

Over the past 15 months, El Salvador’s security forces have jailed tens of thousands of people in a massive crackdown on the country’s notorious gangs

The Independent UK

Guatemala's presidential hopefuls channel heavy-handed tactics of El Salvador's leader

Candidates to be Guatemala’s next president are pushing a neighbor’s controversial success into the race

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Reuters

El Salvador president pledges white-collar prison in 'war' on corruption

El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele on Thursday announced a bill to slim down the country's political system as he launched a "war against corruption" and pledged to build a prison to hold white-collar criminals.

Daily Mirror

Inside the brutal El Salvador jail that's packed with 67,000 prisoners where 153 died

Four woman were among the 153 convicts to have died while in El Salvadorean state custody since officials began locking thousands of members of its powerful street gangs in mega jails across the Central American country

The Independent UK

Report: At least 153 people arrested under special powers have died in Salvadoran prisons

At least 153 people jailed since El Salvador instituted emergency powers in March 2022 to confront the country’s powerful street gangs have died in state custody

The Guardian - US

At least 153 died in custody in El Salvador’s gang crackdown – report

Human rights group’s 107-page report details human cost of President Nayib Bukele’s controversial ‘war on gangs’

The Guardian - UK

At least 12 people dead after crowd crush at football stadium in El Salvador

At least 12 people have died and more than 100 were injured in a crush at the Estadio Cuscatlán in San Salvador, the nation’s capital

Daily Record

El Salvador Stadium stampede leaves at least 12 dead as President warns culprits 'will not go unpunished'

The match in the Central American country's capital was suspended as disaster struck.

Fortune

Strike expands Bitcoin payments to 65 countries, moves global headquarters to El Salvador

The Jack-Mallers led Lightning app says it can now support nearly 3 billion people globally.

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