SAN SALVADOR (Reuters) - El Salvador said on Tuesday it hoped its economy would get a lift from China after it broke diplomatic ties with Taiwan in favour of Beijing, reducing the dwindling group of ...

El Salvador, once hailed as the global trailblazer for national Bitcoin adoption, is quietly shifting gears. After making headlines in 2021 for becoming the first country to embrace Bitcoin as legal ...

The gang members who used to prey on the coffee growers of the Balsamo mountain range are all gone — jailed, shot dead, or on the run under the security crackdown that made El Salvador’s Nayib Bukele ...

El Salvador is close to finalizing a $1.3 billion loan agreement with the International Monetary Fund (IMF), expected within two to three weeks. The deal is contingent on significant changes to the ...

The Bitcoin Circular Economy Summit just took place in El Salvador’s Bitcoin Beach, and what an event it was. The invite-only summit saw two days of presentations from communities from across the ...

Nayib Bukele is favored to win El Salvador's presidency when voters head to the polls on Sunday, as the country grapples with violence, corruption, poverty and an exodus of migrants seeking to reach ...

In 2021, El Salvador became the first country in the world to make Bitcoin legal tender. President Nayib Bukele said the decision would help the country break free from relying on the US dollar and ...

Democrats‘ trips to visit a deported Salvadorian immigrant are threatening to overshadow leadership’s plans for a “cost-of-living” week of action to call attention to President Donald Trump’s economy.

El Salvador continues to stack Bitcoin despite a high-stakes $1.4 billion IMF deal, the nation's economy minister, Maria Luisa Hayem, confirmed. Speaking to Bloomberg News live at the Rio de Janeiro ...

This article is part of a four-piece series on El Salvador. You can find the second dispatch, a story on Bitcoin City, here. In El Salvador, about two hours away from the capital, up in the mountains, ...