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NAYIB BUKELE

U.S. President Donald Trump, right, and Nayib Bukele, El Salvador's president, during a meeting in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington on Monday
WORLD / Politics
Apr 15, 2025
El Salvador's Bukele won't return man the U.S. mistakenly deported
The Trump administration has deported hundreds of people to El Salvador, which is receiving $6 million to house the migrants in a high-security mega-prison.
Inmates in a cell at the Counter-Terrorism Confinement Centre mega-prison southeast of San Salvador on Aug. 21, 2023.
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Mar 28, 2024
El Salvador's two-year push has crushed street gangs but at a high price
Deployment of the military and police dealt a heavy blow to the structures of the gangs but at the cost of human rights, and poverty remains a major issue.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / ANALYSIS
Nov 26, 2021
'Feel the Bit': El Salvador president gets mixed reaction to Bitcoin drive
Some have expressed outrage at the glitzy promotion of the plan to push the cryptocurrency in a nation beleaguered by inequality, violence and poor public services.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Nov 22, 2021
El Salvador plans first 'Bitcoin City' backed by Bitcoin bonds
El Salvador in September became the first country in the world to adopt bitcoin as legal tender.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Markets
Sep 9, 2021
El Salvador president steps in to fix bitcoin rollout snags
Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele stepped in on Wednesday to manage the fraught roll-out of a payment app that underpins the nation's adoption of bitcoin as legal tender, and called on users to report any problems on his Twitter feed.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Feb 4, 2019
Anti-corruption outsider wins El Salvador presidency, ending three decades of two-party dominance
A former mayor campaigning on an anti-corruption ticket swept to victory in El Salvador's presidential election on Sunday, bringing an end to a two-party system that has held sway over the violence-plagued Central American country for three decades.

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