El Salvador backs mass trials for thousands held in crime crackdown
The legislation will allow prosecutors to simultaneously try up to hundreds of people alleged to be part of the same criminal group or from the same area of the Central American country.
El Salvador partnership to build US$1 billion bitcoin mining farm
Bitcoin mining uses high-power computers hooked up to a global network, sucking up massive amounts of electricity in the process.
At least 12 dead in stampede at El Salvador stadium
The incident comes after a deadly stampede last year killed 135 spectators at a stadium in Indonesia's East Java in October.
El Salvador opens 40,000-person prison as arrests soar in gang crackdown
The 40,000-capacity Terrorism Confinement Center was inaugurated to help relieve some of the overpopulation in the country's prison system.
El Salvador declares state of emergency over spike in gang killings
Police reported 62 people killed on Saturday alone, and another 14 on Friday.
In world first, bitcoin becomes legal tender in El Salvador
Bitcoin can be bought and spent using a cyber wallet app called Chivo, while cash can be drawn, in dollars, from some 200 bitcoin ATMs hastily erected countrywide.
El Salvador becomes first country to approve bitcoin as legal tender
El Salvador's main currency is the US dollar and it remains unclear how the country plans to implement bitcoin as a functioning currency.
International criminal gang leaders charged with terrorism by US
President Donald Trump has linked the fight against the gang with his campaign against illegal immigration.
US persuades Central American countries to accept its rejected immigrants
Critics say conditions in the selected countries are woefully inadequate for asylum-seekers.
