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The Biden administration sanctions "bad actors" in Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras and Nicaragua, hoping to foster reform and curb illegal immigration.
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El Salvador wants to build Bitcoin City; Cuba hopes to skirt the U.S. trade embargo. But so far Latin America looks like anything but a cryptocurrency utopia.
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El Salvador wants to build Bitcoin City; Cuba hopes to skirt the U.S. trade embargo. But so far Latin America looks like anything but a cryptocurrency utopia.
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COMMENTARY The western hemisphere is saddled with a third category of government: the gang wing, countries controlled by violent criminal mafias.
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El Salvador's president has responded to gang violence with a sweeping campaign of arrests that raise questions about whether he's violating human rights.
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COMMENTARY El Salvador's crises of bloodshed and Bitcoin may be a turning point for Nayib Bukele and his millennial brand of Latin American authoritarianism.
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The government declared a state of emergency and locked down prisons after more than 80 murders were committed Friday, Saturday and Sunday.
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COMMENTARY This month's Texas and Mexico cases confirm the U.S. is moving backward — and Latin America forward — on how to approach abortion.
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This week El Salvador becomes the first country to accept Bitcoin as legal tender. President Nayib Bukele insists it'll be a boon; critics call it an authoritarian diversion.
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Last week El Salvador became the world's first country to make Bitcoin legal tender. But the cryptocurrency's complexity and volatility are big challenges.
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Vice President Harris met with a dozen companies and NGOs that have agreed to invest in the Northern Triangle countries. It's part of an effort to address the root causes of migration to the U.S.
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A life lived traveling to the home country of her ancestors led to Gabriela Garcia’s debut novel — 'Of Women and Salt' — this month’s Sundial Book Club title.