This article is part of a four-piece series on El Salvador. You can find the previous dispatch, a story on Bitcoin Berlín, ...

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Central African Republic has launched a memecoin in a bid to attract investment to the mineral-rich but impoverished nation.

President Faustin-Archange Touadéra of the Central African Republic (CAR) has formally declared the introduction of a ...

Central African Republic President Faustin-Archange Touadéra has launched a meme-coin in a bid to raise the profile of the ...

Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s trip to Latin America represented a classic exercise of big stick diplomacy, threatening ...

El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele says he will incarcerate convicted criminals from the U.S. in his country, a macabre offer that is being praised as an "unprecedented" by U.S. Secretary of State ...

Four years after becoming the first country to adopt bitcoin as legal tender, El Salvador is taking a step back. The ...

El Salvador continues to expand its national Bitcoin holdings as President Nayib Bukele predicts an “exponential” surge in ...

El Salvador legitimised BTC as a legal tender in 2021 The country’s pro-BTC policies have been criticised by the IMF The IMF had withheld funds to El Salvador since April 2024 ...

Eduardo Escobar, director of the civic group Citizen Action, said that with New Ideas ... At Bukele’s urging, El Salvador made bitcoin legal tender alongside the U.S. dollar in 2021. Bukele has ...

El Salvador declared bitcoin legal tender in 2021 (MARVIN RECINOS) Merchants in El Salvador, the first country to make bitcoin legal tender, will no longer be obliged to accept the cryptocurrency ...