El Salvador

Costs for cargo shipments have risen up to 500% since last year, putting at risk imports of raw materials - this has caused a major state of alert for national shipping companies

The country declared that all students will have to present the Covid-19 Vaccination Certificate in order to be able to enrol in classes for the 2022 academic school year

The Legislative Assembly approved a loan from the Central American Bank of Economic Integration in order to improve the national infrastructure solely dedicated to sports

Human rights organisations have filed a criminal complaint against 25 Salvadoran soldiers and a former officer for their alleged involvement in the murder of four Dutch journalists during the 12-year civil war

Hundreds of children have benefited from Qatar's latest medical donation, which included some 5.000 children's masks, recreational materials and other essential health products to reduce Covid-19 spread at the hospital

After being the first country to recognise bitcoins as a currency, the government has decided that it will donate $30 in bitcoins to each citizen to encourage the spread of cryptocurrency

The adoption of bitcoin as legal tender has raised doubts in experts about the results of this government-backed economic operation, as it could lead to the "complete collapse of the economy"

Nayib Bukele, Latin America’s youngest president, said he plans to send legislation that would make Bitcoin legal tender in the country

Fr. Estefan Turcios, the head of El Salvador's pontifical mission societies who pastored working-class parishioners in Soyapango for 34 years, has perished with Covid-19 and the local population gathered to tribute him in a memorial Mass

The country has moved a step closer to being named as the host city for the 2022 Central American and Caribbean Games after confirmation that the Olympic Committee of El Salvador had submitted the required documentation by the deadline

The country, within the Project Arcon, will use sniffer dogs to detect the presence of the Covid-19 virus, even in people who are asymptomatic

20 coastal communities are leading a sustainable form of life that encompasses different tools: from ecological cookstoves to mangrove reforestation