Biztech news Tech this week: El Salvador rejects IMF call to drop Bitcoin use El Salvador became the first country in the world to make Bitcoin legal tender and is resisting any pushback on that, while Snap shares surge after a tough week for the tech sector. 06/02/2022
Scenes El Salvador: Collective of young artists eyes "cultural revolution" "From limitation comes the creative explosion." 31/01/2022
Money IMF urges El Salvador to drop Bitcoin as legal tender El Salvador became the first country in the world to adopt Bitcoin as legal tender, but the International Monetary Fund is not a fan. 26/01/2022
Money El Salvador reveals plans to build the world's first 'Bitcoin City' Billed as 'fully ecological' powered by geothermal energy from a volcano, El Salvador's "Bitcoin City" is the country's latest commitment to crypto. 21/11/2021
Money Bitcoin is being mined in El Salvador with green volcanic energy Of the 107 megawatts generated by the plant, five are used for the operation and mining of Bitcoin and the rest for the country's power grid. 29/10/2021
no comment 2,000 migrants continue walk through southern Mexico A group of about 2,000 mainly Central American migrants continued their mass exodus from the southern Mexico city of Tapachula Sunday, reaching a town about 16 miles away. 25/10/2021
no comment Traders evacuate burning market in El Salvador Traders are evacuated and emergency services work at the scene as a huge fire burns at San Salvador's San Miguelito market. 23/09/2021
Biztech news Tech this week: El Salvador court looks at Bitcoin complaints A court will look at complaints against Bitcoin purchases made by El Salvador's government, Elon Musk leads tributes to Sir Clive Sinclair, plus more tech news. 19/09/2021
Money Thousands protest against El Salvador's president and Bitcoin law Protesters marched against moves by President Nayib Bukele to centralise power, attacking Bitcoin ATMs installed by the government. 16/09/2021
Money El Salvador's Bitcoin rollout hit by digital wallet glitches For a fourth day in a row on Friday, technical glitches marred attempts by Salvadorans to download and use the country's new digital wallet. 11/09/2021
Money Ukraine has just passed a new cryptocurrency law. What will change? Ukraine is the fifth country in as many weeks to set up ground rules for digital currencies, following El Salvador’s move to use Bitcoin as legal tender. 09/09/2021
Money Crypto prices plunge and exchange trading falters marring Bitcoin Day All eyes were on El Salvador as it made Bitcoin official legal tender. But the cryptocurrency market had other plans. 07/09/2021
Money El Salvador officially adopts Bitcoin as currency - with a few hiccups Skepticism around Bitcoin was not dispelled when Salvadorans couldn't access the country's new digital wallet - or when its price slid. 07/09/2021
Money Majority in El Salvador don’t want or trust Bitcoin, new study finds As El Salvador is about to use Bitcoin as legal tender, a study shows many are distrustful of the crypto and some don’t even know what it is. 03/09/2021
Money El Salvador approves €127 million Bitcoin adoption fund The country's Congress approved the funding as it prepares to adopt Bitcoin as an official currency on September 7. 01/09/2021
Money Anti-Bitcoin protests in El Salvador as official adoption draws closer Other countries are keen to see whether the historic decision to make Bitcoin legal tender pays off. El Salvadorans are less convinced. 28/08/2021
Money Paraguay in a race for second place to make Bitcoin official currency El Salvador was the first. But if Paraguay succeeds in following suit, it may not be the last in Latin America to put its faith in crypto. 22/06/2021
Money Why is Bitcoin booming in Latin America? El Salvador’s decision to make Bitcoin an official currency is a watershed for crypto - and it’s setting off a chain reaction in Latin America. 12/06/2021
Money El Salvador has made Bitcoin legal tender. What does it mean? El Salvador president Nayib Bukele said history had been made with Bitcoin now due to become legal tender within 90 days. 06/06/2021
Travel News Dogs in El Salvador can sniff out COVID-19 El Salvador is a nose ahead of the rest in the battle against COVID-19 - with sniffer dogs. 30/04/2021
no comment El Salvador: Traditional fireball festival in the streets of Nejapa The town of Nejapa, El Salvador celebrated its annual fireball festival on Saturday (August 31) with participants pelting each other with rags drenched in gasoline that have been rolled into tight flaming balls. 02/09/2019
world news El Salvador acquits woman accused of killing her stillborn child 21-year-old Evelyn Hernández had already served 33 months of a 30-year prison sentence when her conviction was overturned in February for lack of evidence and a new trial was ordered. 20/08/2019
View Resource extraction, climate change and the right to live well ǀ View Protecting the world’s remaining tropical forest cover from natural resource extraction is essential if the worst of climate change is to be avoided, and the rights of people who depend on those forests are to be respected. 24/07/2019
Good Morning Europe Image of drowned migrants prompts political soul-searching Óscar Alberto Martínez Ramírez and daughter Valeria - originally from El Salvador - drowned trying to cross the border from Mexico. 27/06/2019
El Salvador Move over, Trump? Meet the president taking Twitter use to new levels Twitter has been central in getting underdog candidate Nayib Buele elected President of El Salvador. Now, the leader is taking some of his first actions in office via Twitter, including letting officials go. 07/06/2019
El Salvador El Salvador: A 'millenial' mayor the favourite to win elections It's the first time since the 1992 peace accords that dominating political parties could lose the elections against a young candidate with no political ideology. 01/02/2019
