Now, residents fear the same fate for other rivers -- and the creatures and people depending on them -- after Congress, at President Nayib Bukele's request, reversed a ban on metal mining.

To be sure, it is important to note that these truces had intrinsic problems and were devoid of large-scale political buy-in required to undermine gang violence. The government of El Salvador, for ...

In an unprecedented financial tug-of-war, El Salvador is betting everything on the global chessboard. Despite warnings from the IMF and a conditional loan of $1.4 billion, Nayib Bukele persists: the ...

The President of El Salvador, Nayib Bukele, assured on Tuesday that the country “will not stop” and will continue buying bitcoin for its strategic reserve, despite the fact that the crypto asset will ...

The International Monetary Fund has added new conditions to the 40-month, $1.4 billion Extended Fund Facility (EFF) for El Salvador. When it was initially approved in December, it already contained ...

San Salvador — It takes about 90 minutes to drive from El Salvador's capital, San Salvador, to the most notorious prison in the country. Opened in 2023, the Center for the Confinement of ...

SAN SALVADOR - El Salvador's San Sebastian river has no fish. The runoff from a gold mine upstream, already shuttered two decades ago, has long killed them all. Now, residents fear the same fate ...

This article is part of a four-piece series on El Salvador. You can find the previous dispatch, a story on El Zonte, here. There was formidable energy at this year’s Plan B conference in El ...

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This time, the jump was bigger and, as I said to my son hosting me here in El Salvador, “Charlie, I’m very good at jumping, just not so good at landing.” Perhaps I am the old dog to whom you ...