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El Salvador

El Salvador first country to make bitcoin a legal tender

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El Salvador has become the first country in the world to adopt bitcoin as legal tender after Congress approved President Nayib Bukele’s proposal to embrace the cryptocurrency. With 62 out of 84 possible votes, lawmakers voted in favor of the move to create a law to adopt bitcoin, despite concern about the potential impact on […]

‘Dehumanizing’ images slammed as El Salvador gets tough on prisoners

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Photos of tightly packed prisoners in El Salvador have horrified human rights defenders, with Amnesty International’s chief media officer for the region calling the pictures “dehumanizing” on Twitter. “[The photos] bring to mind imagery from some of the darkest moments in human history,” Duncan Tucker tweeted. The president of the Central American country, Nayib Bukele, […]