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February 3, 2025 at 1:56 PM Mykhailo Polenok | Dreamstime.com Four years after becoming the first country to adopt bitcoin as legal tender, El Salvador is taking a step back.
SAN SALVADOR (Reuters) -El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele took office on Saturday for a second term pledging to cure the "illnesses" of the Central American country by prescribing his medicine ...
In 2021, El Salvador became the first country to make the cryptocurrency legal tender alongside the U.S. dollar, which it adopted two decades earlier. Lawmakers in El Salvador rush new bitcoin ...
Events in the year 2025 in El Salvador. Incumbents. President: Nayib Bukele; Vice President: Félix Ulloa; Holidays. Source: [1] [2] 1 January — New Year's Day;
Ongoing — COVID-19 pandemic in El Salvador. 14 January – Acting United States Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen announces terrorism charges against fourteen MS-13 leaders imprisoned in El Salvador. [1] 18 January – Authorities said that money sent home by migrants reached a high of USD$5.92 billion in 2020, 4.8% higher than in 2019.
In 2021, El Salvador received a $40 million loan for small enterprises and projects for climate action, from the European Investment Bank to the country's development bank, Banco de Desarollo de el Salvador. [25] $20 million will be used to assist investments in renewable energy projects, specifically photovoltaics, biogas, and micro hydro ...
El Salvador's Supreme Court, which is filled with judges backed by Bukele, ruled in 2021 that he could run for another term in office despite a specific constitutional ban on the president's ...
SAN LUIS DE LA REINA, El Salvador (Reuters) - Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele said on Thursday he expects to reach an agreement with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) over a new financing ...