El Salvador

This week marks the country’s anniversary since the beginning of its infamous emergency state to crack down illegal gangs

Despite an explicit constitutional prohibition against serving consecutive presidential terms, a recent government poll shows that approximately 70% of Salvadorans favour President Nayib Bukele’s run for a second term

Women’s rights activists have called for the Inter-American Court of Human Rights to condemn the country in a case brought a decade ago by a woman who died after being forced to carry a pregnancy, and the court will finally carry the trial this month

The first 2.000 inmates have been moved to the country’s newly constructed “mega-prison”, a facility that is now, according to President Nayib Bukele, the official centre piece of the state’s war on gangs

The country is planning to open a “Bitcoin Embassy” in the US, aiming to establish a Salvadorian Bitcoin representative office to work on new joint projects that promote the adoption of Bitcoin

Over 60.000 gang members have been arrested since the beginning of the country’s state of emergency; now the government has stated that after nearly 2 decades, thousands of families whose houses were stolen by gangs are getting them back

President Nayib Bukele has announced the liberation of over 3.000 inmates that were arrested during the state’s crackdown on gangs, who after their trial were determined as innocent and wrongfully detained

This past year the country broke its personal record for renewable energy generation, by producing 83% of its total electricity through sustainable means

The government has deployed 10.000 troops to the gang-controlled areas of the country, planning to surround all of the areas and extract the members one by one to place them in the country’s newest, dedicated prison

As of today authorities have arrested over 2% of the country’s adult population: the UN has warned that El Salvador should control the number of arrests it has been executing

The state has ordered the destruction of the luxury tombs of Mara Salvatrucha members - an international gang involved in drug and human smuggling - as a way to completely erase the memory of such criminals from the country

The country has established the National Bitcoin Office, a completely new government authority which will be regulated by President Nayib Bukele and will focus on regulating everything related to Bitcoin