The prison lies some 47 miles southeast of El Salvador’s capital city, San Salvador, and has been a flagship part of the country’s President Nayib Bukele’s crackdown on violent drug cartels.

“Perhaps they could serve them in the prisons of El Salvador, which have become ... about an hour southeast of the capital, San Salvador. The prison has developed a reputation for hideous ...

The president of El Salvador on Monday offered to house ... agreement anywhere in the world,” in remarks from the capital city of San Salvador. “We can send them and he will put them in ...

You can find the second dispatch, a story on Bitcoin City, here. In El Salvador, about two hours away from the capital, up in the mountains, lies a town named Berlín. It’s a mid-sized city by ...

Bukele, who has long been an advocate of using tourism to boost the economy, saw surfing as a way to improve El Salvador’s image abroad. With a reputation historically shaped by high crime rates and ...

SAN SALVADOR ... his campaign against El Salvador’s gangs in March 2022. It opened a year later in the town of Tecoluca, about 72 kilometers (45 miles) east of the capital.

This article is part of a four-piece series on El Salvador. You can find the previous dispatch, a story on Bitcoin City, here ... may have looked like before capital started flowing in.

In 2021 El Salvador became ... shun conventional capital markets, and raise billions via tokenised blockchain bonds. He would buy $500m-worth of bitcoin, build a “bitcoin city” in the jungle ...

SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) — Lawyers hired by the Venezuelan government filed a legal action Monday in El Salvador aimed at freeing 238 Venezuelans deported by the United States who are ...

Bukele ordered the mega-prison built as he began his campaign against El Salvador’s gangs in March 2022. It opened a year later in the town of Tecoluca, about 45 miles east of the capital.

SAN SALVADOR ... his campaign against El Salvador’s gangs in March 2022. It opened a year later in the town of Tecoluca, about 72 kilometers (45 miles) east of the capital.