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El Salvador Emerges as a Startup Hub: San Salvador Climbs 405 Places in Global Index
El Salvador in English
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August 9, 2025
El Salvador’s capital has recorded one of the most significant leaps in the Global Startup Ecosystem Index (GSEI) 2025, advancing 405 positions from its 2024 ranking. San Salvador now holds the 300th place globally, compared to 705th last year,...
How El Salvador Went from World’s Murder Capital to One of the Safest Countries in the Americas
El Salvador in English
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August 9, 2025
Once known as the murder capital of the world, El Salvador has undergone a historic transformation, emerging as a global case study in restoring security, sovereignty, and economic growth. According to an exclusive feature by The Gateway Pundit...
Trump Signs Military Directive to Target Drug Cartels and Terrorist Groups Across the Americas
The Yucatan Times
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August 9, 2025
26 On August 8, 2025, President Donald Trump signed a secret directive authorizing the U.S. military to take direct action against Latin American drug cartels and criminal organizations designated as foreign terrorist groups. This marks a dramatic...
Bitcoin investment banks coming to El Salvador — Gov regulator
Coin Telegraph
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August 9, 2025
Regulated Bitcoin (BTC) investment banks are coming to El Salvador, following Thursday’s approval of El Salvador’s Investment Banking Law, which classifies investment banks under different regulations than commercial banks. Investment banks will...
El Salvador opposition challenges Bukele indefinite reelection
Tico Times
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August 9, 2025
An opposition lawmaker in El Salvador filed a lawsuit with the Supreme Court on Friday challenging the constitutionality of indefinite presidential re-election, recently approved by Congress to allow President Nayib Bukele to remain in power. In a...
Washington Roundup: Birthright citizenship order blocked; military plans ordered for cartels
OSV News
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August 9, 2025
WASHINGTON (OSV News) — Another federal court blocked President Donald Trump’s executive order seeking to restrict birthright citizenship — the fourth such ruling since the U.S. Supreme Court issued a related ruling in June. The same week,...
El Salvador Becomes First in Central America to Enact Full Diaspora Protection Law
El Salvador in English
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August 8, 2025
El Salvador’s Legislative Assembly has approved the Special Law on Benefits and Protection for the Diaspora and People on the Move, a legal framework designed to protect Salvadorans living abroad, facilitate their voluntary return, and strengthen...
Sin obstáculos para ser reelegido presidente de El Salvador, Bukele avanza bajo la sombra de Trump
KESQ-TV - California
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August 9, 2025
Análisis de Juan Carlos López El video circula en redes. La diputada Suecy Callejas, primera vicepresidenta de la Asamblea Legislativa de El Salvador, se pronunciaba ante el pleno durante el debate en el que fue aprobada la reelección indefinida...
Mexico pushes back at reports that Trump wants US military to battle cartels
Times of Malta
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August 9, 2025
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum said Friday that there would be "no invasion of Mexico" following reports that President Donald Trump had ordered the US military to target Latin American drug cartels. "There will be no invasion of Mexico,"...
Video: Will El Salvador Reforms Help or Hinder Bukele’s Anti-Crime Fight?
InSight Crime - Washington D.C.
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August 8, 2025
Earlier this week El Salvador’s Legislative Assembly voted to abolish presidential term limits. That could allow President Nayib Bukele, to seek reelection indefinitely, but what does it mean for the country’s fight against organized crime and the...
El Salvador hints at Bitcoin banks as $400 trillion wealth shift gains steam
CryptoSlate
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August 8, 2025
El Salvador is signaling its next significant step in Bitcoin adoption by planning to create a dedicated Bitcoin bank. On Aug. 8, the country’s Bitcoin Office posted on X, declaring: “Bitcoin Banks are coming to the Bitcoin Country.” Although no...
VAMOS Deputy Challenges Constitutionality of El Salvador’s Indefinite Presidencial Re-Election Reform
teleSUR
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August 9, 2025
(FILE) Salvadoran deputy Claudia Ortiz. Photo: Prensa Latina. August 9, 2025 Hour: 1:12 am Claudia Ortiz, a deputy from the Salvadoran opposition party VAMOS, filed on Friday a constitutional challenge before the Constitutional Chamber of the...
El Salvador Approves Legal Framework to Boost Historic Economic Growth
El Salvador in English
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August 9, 2025
El Salvador’s Legislative Assembly has approved a new legal framework aimed at attracting high-value foreign investments of $2 billion or more, with the goal of boosting productivity, generating jobs, and expanding exports. The legislation, backed...
Corte anula fallo de desacato contra el gobierno de Trump en deportaciones a El Salvador
Los Angeles Times
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August 9, 2025
WASHINGTON — Una corte de apelaciones anuló el viernes un fallo de desacato de un juez contra el gobierno del presidente Donald Trump en un caso sobre deportaciones a una prisión en El Salvador. La decisión se produce después de que aviones que...
Court Tosses Trump Contempt Charge by Judge Who Ordered Illegal Aliens’ Return from El Salvador
CNSNews
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DONATE A federal appeals court voted 2-1 Friday to throw out a controversial anti-Trump judge’s contempt finding regarding his court order that the Trump Administration turn airplanes around and return illegal aliens on their way to El Salvador...
Illegal immigrant driver was three times legal limit when he allegedly killed NJ mom, young daughter in fatal crash
New York Post
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August 9, 2025
The illegal immigrant who drove an SUV head-on into a sedan carrying a young mother and her 11-year-old daughter, killing both, had a blood alcohol level three times the legal limit, New Jersey officials revealed this week. Raul Luna-Perez had...
What Does an Indefinite Bukele Presidency in El Salvador Mean for Surfing?
The Inertia - California
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August 8, 2025
Griffin Colapinto, after his 2022 win at the Surf City El Salvador Pro. Photo: WSL Nayib Bukele has a path to remain El Salvador’s president, barring any major shakeups, for decades to come. It’s a political move that could have a resounding...
Presentan demanda contra reformas que permiten reelección presidencial indefinida en El Salvador
Los Angeles Times
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August 9, 2025
SAN SALVADOR — Una diputada opositora al gobierno del mandarario salvadoreño Nayib Bukele presentó el viernes una demanda de inconstitucionalidad ante la Corte Suprema de Justicia en contra de las recientes reformas a la carta magna aprobadas en...
Globalists in PANIC as Bukele Turns El Salvador into a POWERHOUSE
The Gateway Pundit
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August 8, 2025
This article originally appeared on rifttv.com and was republished with permission. Once plagued by gang violence and dubbed the murder capital of the world, El Salvador has undergone a stunning transformation under President Nayib Bukele, earning...
El Salvador's crime crackdown and 1 big question Nigel Farage will be asking
Daily Express
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August 8, 2025
A couple of numbers for you to stroke your chin over. Six thousand, six hundred and fifty six: total number of murders in El Salvador 10 years ago. And... one hundred and fourteen: total number of murders in El Salvador last year. That’s a fall of...