Liberty Networks is to deploy a new subsea cable linking El Salvador to Panama. The Latin America and the Caribbean-focused firm this week announced it has been selected by El Salvador’s telecom regulator SIGET (General Superintendence of Electricity and Telecommunications) to construct and deploy the country’s first submarine cable.

Earlier this year, the U.S. designated MS-13, which was formed in Los Angeles in the 1980s by Salvadoran immigrants, a terrorist organization.

Inmates in one of El Salvador’s mega prisons where Nayib Bukele has offered to house ‘dangerous criminals’ deported by the US - MARVIN RECINOS Nayib Bukele, El Salvador’s millennial dictator, has offered to house migrants and “dangerous criminals ...

The country once known for having the highest murder rate in the world, El Salvador, is now the safest country in Latin America. New figures from the Salvadoran government of President Nayib Bukele show only 114 murders in 2024. In the context of El ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... COMMENTARY If President Trump hopes to replicate Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele's authoritarian conquest of the judicary, tiny El Salvador may have a large effect on America's democratic future. We once hoped ...

Right-wing President Nayib Bukele of El Salvador, currently on leave from office, has taken his controversial re-election campaign beyond Salvadoran borders in a bid to shore up global support. Bukele took to X, formerly Twitter, to tout recent discussions ...

For decades, life choices were bleak for many in El Salvador: Leave or die. Dubbed the “murder capital of the world,” there was an average of a homicide an hour in early 2016, in this country of just 6 million people — two million fewer than call New ...

We estimate the nation’s just-issued 30-year bond is still priced 200 basis points cheap compared to its fair value, with projected returns exceeding 33% over the next year should spreads narrow to our target. By 2024, 8% of Salvadorans have used Bitcoin ...

Bitcoin will be a success in El Salvador, boosting remittances, industry and gains from remuneration. Per capita GDP is likely to double over the next decade as remittances, the energy sector and tourism all grow. El Salvador made waves in June 2021 by ...

In an effort to keep the “international” in Ontario International Airport, the airport plans to provide flights to Central America for the first time in its history. The airport has contracted with a Colombia-based Avianca Airlines to offer three ...