Selected Articles

El Salvador’s bitcoin experiment: $60 million lost, $375 million spent, little to show so far - CNBC 13.10.22 327065
In El Salvador, rising inmate numbers threaten humanitarian crisis: NGO - Reuters 05.10.22 312008
In El Salvador and elsewhere, leaders find ways to break term limits - Washington Post 04.10.22 312010
In El Salvador, army surrounds town to root out gang - AP News 03.10.22 312005
In El Salvador, army surrounds town to root out gang - AP 02.10.22 327084
Corruption under the State of Emergency in El Salvador: a democracy without oxygen - Wola 27.09.22 327037
El Salvador's president has taken over the government and installed martial law - NPR 26.09.22 327019
Nayib Bukele wants to abolish term limits in El Salvador - Economist 22.09.22 312011
El Salvador Buys Back Debt as President Nayib Bukele Gears for Re-Election - WSJ 21.09.22 312009
Bukele’s re-election bid fuels new concern in El Salvador - Al Jazeera 20.09.22 327046
El Salvador’s Bukele says he will seek re-election despite ban - Al Jazeera 16.09.22 305545
El Salvador president re-election bid draws strong reaction - AP News 16.09.22 376752
El Salvador’s Bitcoin-Loving President Bukele Courts Re-Election Controversy - Bloomberg 16.09.22 327063
Living Without Rights Feels Normal in El Salvador. It Shouldn’t Be - HRW 13.09.22 327021
One year on, El Salvador’s Bitcoin experiment has proven a spectacular failure - The Conversation 11.09.22 312012
Bukele's Failed Bitcoin Experiment in El Salvador - Global Issues 07.09.22 304052
Why El Salvador's Bitcoin experiment is stumbling one year on - Euronews 07.09.22 312013
The Rise of Nayib Bukele, El Salvador's Authoritarian President - New Yorker 05.09.22 312003
El Salvador Had a Bitcoin Revolution. Hardly Anybody Showed Up - Bloomberg 03.09.22 327062
The Verdict Is in for El Salvador’s Bitcoin Experiment: It Failed - National Review 01.09.22 312019
A Man Was Arrested Hours After He Criticized the El Salvador Government on Twitter - Vice 24.08.22 312020
El Salvador plans 40,000-inmate mega-prison in ‘war against gangs’ - Financial Times 23.08.22 312015
El Salvador extends state of exception as arrests hit 50,000 - Al Jazeera 17.08.22 327083
The dark side of El Salvador's 'war on gangs' - Le Monde 15.08.22 312018
El Salvador president rips FBI Trump raid, questions what US gov't would say if his police targeted candidates - Fox News 10.08.22 327053
The El Salvador diaries: The cult of Nayib Bukele - Al Jazeera 08.08.22 327036
Salvadoran Archbishop praises government crackdown on gangs - AP 31.07.22 327052
El Salvador’s Bitcoin Bet Is Working, Finance Minister Says - Bloomberg 28.07.22 327066
El Salvador Builds Giant Prison Complex for 40,000 Gang Members - Bloomberg 22.07.22 327064
Nayib Bukele’s Broken Bitcoin Promise - The Intercept 22.07.22 327073
El Salvador’s Embrace of Bitcoin Didn’t Bring Prosperity — It Rode in With Waves of Repression - Intercept 22.07.22 298051
El Salvador extends state of exception in gang crackdown - AP 20.07.22 327080
‘Each day is agony’: the lives swept up in El Salvador’s mass arrests - Guardian 03.07.22 327089
Video: El Salvador president says crackdown on gangs crime will intensify - Al Jazeera 01.07.22 327152
El Salvador’s Bitcoin-boosting leader buys $1.5 million more - AP 30.06.22 327082
The El Salvador diaries: A day in the life of a never-ending war - Al Jazeera 30.06.22 293235
In El Salvador, Bitcoin and the Police State Have Gone Hand in Hand - Jacobin 25.06.22 293137
El Salvador’s $425 million bitcoin experiment isn’t saving the country’s finances - CNBC 25.06.22 327070
No One is Safe in Bukele’s Gang War - NACLA 23.06.22 295374
Bukele’s Old Recipes to Address Gang Violence Are Set to Fail - HRW 21.06.22 327067
Bitcoin-boosting Salvadoran leader asks for patience - AP 19.06.22 327081
El Salvador’s Big Bitcoin Gamble Backfires to Deepen Debt Woes - Bloomberg 15.06.22 327103
Salvadoran leader rebuffs Blinken effort to bolster summit - AP 09.06.22 327071
‘It’s a war on the people’: El Salvador’s mass arrests send thousands into despair - Guardian 08.06.22 327087
Video: How is a ‘state of exception’ changing El Salvador? - Al Jazeera 07.06.22 327157
El Salvador: President Bukele engulfs the country in a human rights crisis after three years in government - Amnesty International 02.06.22 327033
Video: Pressure to make arrests as El Salvador extends gang crackdown - Al Jazeera 26.05.22 327148
Video: El Salvador extends state of emergency amid gang crackdown - Al Jazeera 26.05.22 327156
Bitcoin Is Costing El Salvador But President Bukele Isn't Stressed - Bloomberg 24.05.22 333736
El Salvador: MS-13 blames killing spree on broken pact - DW 18.05.22 327069
More than 30,500 arrested in El Salvador gang crackdown - Al Jazeera 16.05.22 327086
Democracy on the Brink: El Salvador’s Ongoing State of Emergency - Wola 06.05.22 327085
Video: As El Salvador’s arrest wave continues, families live in worry - Al Jazeera 06.05.22 327149
'We Are Not Going to Censor Ourselves,' Say El Salvador Journalists - VOA 05.05.22 327150
El Salvador rights groups cite 338 violations amid gang crackdown - Al Jazeera 05.05.22 285673
Video: El Salvador: A crypto-powered autocracy? - Al Jazeera 30.04.22 284950
El Salvador anti-gang measures 'a success' as 17,000 held - BBC 26.04.22 327056
El Salvador extends state of emergency to curb gang violence - Al Jazeera 25.04.22 284104
‘All Salvadorans at risk’: Inside El Salvador’s gang crackdown - Al Jazeera 21.04.22 327060
El Salvador president’s mass arrests ‘punitive populism’ - AP 14.04.22 327074
El Salvador: Sweeping New Laws Endanger Rights - HRW 08.04.22 327048
UN: Government Crackdown on Gangs in El Salvador Violates Human Rights Law - VOA 06.04.22 327057
A state of emergency indeed - Al Jazeera 06.04.22 281336
El Salvador's president conducts gang crackdown, prompting human rights concerns - NPR 06.04.22 327104
Video: Poor in El Salvador Face Brunt of Crackdown on Gang Violence - Democracy Now! 05.04.22 281388
UN rights office raises concerns about El Salvador gang crackdown - Al Jazeera 05.04.22 281351
The Open Secret of Government-Gang Talks - Foreign Policy 01.04.22 281392
5 claves para entender la controvertida ofensiva sin precedentes del gobierno de El Salvador contra las pandillas - BBC 31.03.22 281391
El Salvador’s Bukele warns gangs lead to ‘prison or death’ - Al Jazeera 31.03.22 327049
El Salvador: Broad ‘State of Emergency’ Risks Abuse - HRW 29.03.22 327051
El Salvador declares state of emergency after gang killings - Al Jazeera 28.03.22 280328
El Salvador declares state of emergency after gang killings - Al Jazeera 28.03.22 333742
En Régimen de Excepción tras jornada de más de 70 homicidios - El Faro 27.03.22 281387
El Salvador, Nicaragua accuse each other of entering waters - AP 08.02.22 327128
El Salvador’s Democracy Was Hard-Won. Now President Nayib Bukele Threatens It - Jacobin 16.01.22 269964
El Salvador denies responsibility for hacking journalists after report finds Pegasus spyware on their phones - CNN 13.01.22 327127
Lawyer says Salvadoran gov’t quashed probe of gang pact - Al Jazeera 28.12.21 267341
Critics Blocked on Social Media - HRW 16.12.21 265475
El Salvador: Critics Blocked on Social Media - HRW 16.12.21 327118
EXPLAINER: Gang negotiations sensitive topic in El Salvador - AP 09.12.21 327129
U.S. Treasury: El Salvador government negotiated with gangs - AP 08.12.21 327088
Video: U.S. Accuses El Salvador’s Government of Cutting a Deal With Gangs - WSJ 08.12.21 327153
El Salvador’s president Bukele must change course before it’s too late - Amnesty International 01.12.21 327115
A ‘Bitcoin City’ in El Salvador inspired by ancient Greeks? Here’s a reality check. - NBC 30.11.21 327130
U.S. official says El Salvador relations 'paused' for lack of interest - Reuters 22.11.21 327132
A Bitcoin city? That's the plan in El Salvador - NBC 22.11.21 327133
El Salvador: Legislature Deepens Democratic Backsliding - HRW 01.11.21 327105
El Salvador: Thousands march against Bukele - DW 18.10.21 327151
Thousands protest in El Salvador against Bukele government - Al Jazeera 18.10.21 258472
Fears for democracy in El Salvador after president claims to be ‘coolest dictator’ - Guardian 21.09.21 327137
Podcast: Bitcoin, Bukele and democracy in El Salvador - The Take 20.09.21 255326
El Salvador Protest Reflected Concerns Over Democracy And Bitcoin - NPR 17.09.21 255279
El Salvador Becomes First Nation to Make Bitcoin Legal Tender Amid Growing Authoritarianism - Democracy Now! 16.09.21 257237
Thousands protest against Bukele government in El Salvador - AP 15.09.21 255277
Video: 🇸🇻 Is El Salvador's democracy under threat? - Al Jazeera 14.09.21 327146
Glitches, protests as Bitcoin becomes legal tender in El Salvador - Al Jazeera 07.09.21 254623
El Salvador Just Became The First Country To Accept Bitcoin As Legal Tender - NPR 07.09.21 327126
A project in El Salvador shows how China is exerting growing power in America's backyard - NBC 04.09.21 327110
El Salvador court drops ban on presidential reelection - AP 04.09.21 255278
El Salvador court says presidents can serve two straight terms - Al Jazeera 04.09.21 254502