Hacker News with Generative AI: El Salvador

Bukele and Co.: The New Landowning Family of El Salvador (elsalvadornow.org)
When Nayib Bukele was unconstitutionally re-elected as president of El Salvador in February 2024, he and his family had become landowners during his first term.
Politics, El Salvador, Land Ownership, Corruption
8 points by cempaka 10 days ago | 0 comments
Trump and Bukele Bond over Human Rights Abuses in Oval Office Meeting (rollingstone.com)
President Donald Trump welcomed El Salvador’s president and self-proclaimed “world’s coolest dictator,” Nayib Bukele to the White House on Monday amid a backdrop of controversy and court battles over his administration’s shipment of hundreds of migrants to El Salvador’s notorious prison system without due process.
Politics, Human Rights, El Salvador, United States
20 points by josefresco 11 days ago | 0 comments
U.S. and El Salvador Say They Won't Return Man Who Was Mistakenly Deported (nytimes.com)
President Trump was meeting with President Nayib Bukele of El Salvador at the White House on Monday as the administration ramps up its use of a notorious Salvadoran prison for holding migrants deported by the United States.
Politics, Immigration, International Relations, El Salvador
274 points by dougb5 12 days ago | 256 comments
Venezuelan migrants' arrival in El Salvador: "They had no idea what was coming" (cbsnews.com)
Three weeks ago, photojournalist Philip Holsinger stood on a tarmac in El Salvador waiting for three planes to arrive, cameras slung across his body.
Immigration, El Salvador, Venezuela, Photojournalism
16 points by Teever 12 days ago | 3 comments
Supreme Court Orders Trump to Faciliate Return of Kilmar Garcia from El Salvador (documentcloud.org)
Politics, Law, Immigration, El Salvador, United States
45 points by cmurf 15 days ago | 10 comments
The 'Judicial Black Hole' of El Salvador's Prisons Is a Warning for Americans (rollingstone.com)
On March 27, 2022, on the heels of a weekend marked by dozens of gang-related murders, El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele and his legislature plunged the country into a régimen de excepción — a state of exception — and declared war against the gangs.
El Salvador, Prisons, Law Enforcement, Politics, Human Rights
327 points by Avshalom 21 days ago | 193 comments
An 'administrative error' sent a Maryland man to an El Salvador prison (apnews.com)
The White House admits a “clerical error” was to blame for mistakenly deporting a Maryland man with protected legal status to a notorious El Salvador prison. Still, it asserts the man was an MS-13 gang member and will not be allowed to return to the U.S.
Immigration, Law Enforcement, Politics, El Salvador, United States
135 points by geox 24 days ago | 149 comments
What the Venezuelans Deported to El Salvador Experienced (time.com)
On the night of Saturday, March 15, three planes touched down in El Salvador, carrying 261 men deported from the United States.
Venezuela, El Salvador, Immigration, Deportation, Human Rights
10 points by perihelions 34 days ago | 0 comments
Trump Touts Prison in El Salvador for Tesla Attackers (newsweek.com)
President Donald Trump has suggested sending people who are attacking Tesla to prisons in El Salvador if they are convicted of crimes, as a number of the automaker's vehicles and showrooms have been targeted by reported arson and other violence.
Politics, Crime, Tesla, El Salvador
24 points by archagon 36 days ago | 15 comments
'They turned our home into a cemetery': high price of El Salvador's Bitcoin City (theguardian.com)
Mangroves are being destroyed and residents displaced to make way for an airport to serve president Nayib Bukele’s vision of a tax-free economic hub
Bitcoin, El Salvador, Environmental Impact, Politics, Real Estate
27 points by pseudolus 39 days ago | 9 comments
El Salvador's crypto experiment ends in failure (economist.com)
For much of the time since Nayib Bukele became president in 2019, El Salvador has teetered on the brink of default.
Cryptocurrency, El Salvador, Economics, Government
151 points by jcartw 47 days ago | 121 comments
Archaeologists Unearth Ancient Clay Puppets with Open Mouths, Detachable Heads (smithsonianmag.com)
Researchers have discovered a trove of ancient clay puppets at an archaeological site in El Salvador.
Archaeology, History, Ancient Civilizations, El Salvador
4 points by pseudolus 49 days ago | 0 comments
IMF deal to ban public sector 'Bitcoin accumulation' in El Salvador (cointelegraph.com)
The IMF has issued new requests under its $1.4 billion deal with El Salvador, aiming to restrict BTC purchases by the public sector.
IMF, Cryptocurrency, El Salvador, Finance, Economics
8 points by RinTohsaka 53 days ago | 1 comments
El Salvador's wild crypto experiment ends in failure (economist.com)
For much of the time since Nayib Bukele became president in 2019, El Salvador has teetered on the brink of default.
El Salvador, Cryptocurrency, Economics, Government, Failure
11 points by pseudolus 54 days ago | 3 comments
El Salvador Ends Bitcoin as Legal Tender (newsroompanama.com)
El Salvador, the first country to adopt Bitcoin as legal tender in 2021, recently reversed its decision after pressure from the IMF. What led to this change, and what were the outcomes of its nearly four-year crypto experiment?
El Salvador, Bitcoin, Crypto, IMF, Economics
12 points by asah 77 days ago | 0 comments
El Salvador has agreed to accept U.S. deportations of any nationality (twitter.com)
El Salvador, Immigration, Deportation, United States
10 points by donsupreme 81 days ago | 3 comments
El Salvador offers to house violent US criminals and deportees of any nation (cnn.com)
El Salvador, Crime, Immigration, Politics, International Relations
51 points by miles 81 days ago | 64 comments
El Salvador abandons Bitcoin as legal tender (ticotimes.net)
Bitcoin was never used by most Salvadorans, its modern city was never built, and now it will cease to be legal tender in El Salvador, the first country in the world to adopt it in 2021: a complete failed economic bet by President Nayib Bukele.
Bitcoin, El Salvador, Economics, Government
927 points by smallerfish 81 days ago | 858 comments
El Salvador to Change Bitcoin Law as Part of New IMF Deal: Financial Times (coindesk.com)
El Salvador may roll back a small aspect of its Bitcoin law as part of a new deal with the International Monetary Fund.
Bitcoin, El Salvador, IMF, Finance, Law
21 points by PaulHoule 123 days ago | 2 comments
El Salvador to scale back Bitcoin dreams to seal $1.3B IMF deal (ft.com)
El Salvador, Bitcoin, Finance, IMF, Government
57 points by JumpCrisscross 137 days ago | 17 comments
The Salvadoran government has 5,940 bitcoins worth $582M (lanoticiasv.com)
El Salvador, Bitcoin, Cryptocurrency, Finance
64 points by mistrial9 146 days ago | 92 comments
A Week of Failing to Pay with Bitcoin in El Salvador (reason.com)
When President Nayib Bukele promised that bitcoin would be accepted everywhere in El Salvador, it seemed like a glimpse into the future—a world where cryptocurrency would be woven into everyday life. But after a week there, I found a different reality. Not a single business accepted my bitcoin.
Bitcoin, El Salvador, Cryptocurrency, Economics, Travel
58 points by fortran77 176 days ago | 76 comments
Data breach exposes info for 80% of El Salvador's population (biometricupdate.com)
Data Breaches, Privacy, El Salvador, Biometrics
18 points by jzebedee 353 days ago | 9 comments
El Salvador's Bitcoin Wallet Suffers Leak of Source Code and VPN Access (coinfeeds.io)
Bitcoin, Security, El Salvador, Cryptocurrency, Data Leaks
11 points by bdcravens 367 days ago | 0 comments