Dirty funds:El Salvador’s bitcoin gamble has cybercrime experts worried

Dirty funds:El Salvador’s bitcoin gamble has cybercrime experts worried

Experts are concerned that criminals will be the big winners from El Salvador’s ground-breaking move.

  • byIo Dodds

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Washington'war on drugs'in Latin America needs overhaul:report

Washington'war on drugs'in Latin America needs overhaul:report

It is the result of 18 months of research into the"war on drugs"that has cost billions of American taxpayers'dollars without ending violence and corruption.

  • byPatricia Zengerle
US court rules 400,000 immigrants can be forced to leave

US court rules 400,000 immigrants can be forced to leave

The decision effectively strips their legal status,rendering them deportable and leaving their 200,000 children in limbo.

  • byMiriam Jordan
Coronavirus spreads fear through Latin America's crowded prisons

Coronavirus spreads fear through Latin America's crowded prisons

Any efforts at reducing inmates'contact were blown away in El Salvador when authorities crammed prisoners together in prison yards while searching their cells.

  • byEva Vergara
El Salvador student takes to treetops to pick up signal for online classes

El Salvador student takes to treetops to pick up signal for online classes

Alexander Contreras said he was frustrated because he knew the clock was ticking and thought he might have to drop a class or even miss the whole school year.

  • byNelson Renteria
No tsunami off El Salvador:US
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No tsunami off El Salvador:US

El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele has urged the Central American country's coastal population to move to higher ground.

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Widow,mother of drowning victims returns to El Salvador

Widow,mother of drowning victims returns to El Salvador

Tania Vanessa Avalos arrived in El Salvador with a family friend who had gone with them on their ill-fated journey to the United States.

  • byGerardo Carrillo
Father and daughter who drowned at border waded into river in desperation

Father and daughter who drowned at border waded into river in desperation

Tania Vanessa Avalos,whose husband and daughter drowned while trying to cross from Mexico into the US,wanted a safer future,but now she is working to repatriate their bodies.

  • byReis Thebault,Luis Velarde andAbigail Hauslohner
'They died in each other's arms,'drowned migrant's mother says
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'They died in each other's arms,'drowned migrant's mother says

The mother of a man who drowned alongside his 23-month-old daughter on US border says she finds a heartbreaking photograph of their bodies hard to look at.

  • byMarcos Aleman
Salvadoran front-runner set to overturn decades of two-party rule

Salvadoran front-runner set to overturn decades of two-party rule

All four candidates promised to end corruption,stamp out gang violence and create more jobs,with crushing crime at the top of the agenda.

Taiwan loses third ally to China this year

Taiwan loses third ally to China this year

Taiwan's foreign minister,Joseph Wu,accuses El Salvador of demanding money as China engages in diplomatic one-upmanship.

  • byKirsty Needham