An alleged row over a fast-food order at a McDonald’s drive-thru in South Africa has left one man dead, while a suspect remains on the run. The attack happened on ...
SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador — El Salvador’s Bitcoin-boosting president has asked people to be patient after the price of the cryptocurrency fell below $20,000 — less than half the price ...
LOS ANGELES — It was the sort of diplomatic rebuff a small country like El Salvador generally can rarely afford to make. In the run-up to this week’s Summit of ...
LA LIMONERA, El Salvador — Esmeralda Domínguez was about 100 yards from home when soldiers and police blocked her on a small bridge. The authorities had waited there for hours. ...
SAN SALVADOR—Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele wanted to make a big splash at the glitzy crypto gathering last month in Miami, unveiling details of a Bitcoin-themed citizenship-by-investment program and a “digital ...
SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador — President Nayib Bukele asked El Salvador’s congress Sunday to extend an anti-gang emergency decree for another 30 days. Bukele has used the emergency powers to ...
SANTA TECLA, El Salvador — A day after the bloodletting — 62 gang killings that convulsed El Salvador — the crackdown began. Before dawn on Sunday, March 27, just hours ...
By Catherine Osborn Welcome back to Foreign Policy’s Latin America Brief. The highlights this week: A bloody weekend in El Salvador prompts new questions about government-gang talks, the film Encanto wins big ...
SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador — El Salvador’s congress granted President Nayib Bukele request to declare a state of emergency early Sunday amid a wave of gang-related killings over the weekend. ...
Gang violence has soared in El Salvador, with police reporting that 62 people were killed on Saturday alone. According to official figures, 12 of the killings took place in the ...