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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.
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.
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.
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.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
Murdered Salvadoran Archbishop Oscar Romero made a saint
The murdered Salvadoran Archbishop Oscar Romero and Pope Paul VI have been canonised in a ceremony before tens of thousands of people in St Peter’s Square.
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It has been a dramatic seven days in Europe and beyond, involving political clashes, international incidents and moving ceremonies. Here are some of our highlights and lowlights of the week.
U.S. gives El Salvador nationals 18 month deadline
The Trump administration has given El Salvador nationals 18 months to find a legal way to stay, or leave the country. The ruling will affect over 200,000 people from the Central American country.
Salvadoreans face deportation after US ends Temporary Protected Status
Due to the US practice of granted citizenship to babies born inside the United States, there are now nearly 200,000 US citizens who were born to parents who now may face deportation.
El Salvador's beloved national hippo is beaten to death
The country has reacted with shock and horror after Gustavito was beaten to death in his pen at the national zoo.
Central American sky lit up by spectacular meteor burst
People come out onto the streets in Nicaragua, Guatemala, and El Salvador to watch giant fireball in the sky.
Magnitude 7.0 earthquake shakes Central America
A strong, magnitude 7.
El Salvador: fireballs battle with the devil
Locals in the town of Nejapa in El Salvador have gathered, to hurl fireballs at one another in honour of a huge volcanic eruption in 1922 which forced all of the residents to abandon the…