Nayib Bukele, El Salvador’s authoritarian president, brands himself the “world’s coolest dictator.” But he oversees an ...

That makes her the first high-profile political prisoner incarcerated by Nayib Bukele, El Salvador’s president. Mr Bukele has ...

That makes her the first high-profile political prisoner incarcerated by Nayib Bukele, El Salvador’s president. Mr Bukele has ...

Back in March, El Salvador reached an agreement with the IMF to receive a $3.5 billion loan package. Some of the conditions ...

But after Nayib Bukele, the self-described “world’s coolest dictator”, announced in 2021 that El Salvador would become the ...

The IMF urged a halt to crypto accumulation as part of $1.4 billion program. El Salvador responded by buying more.

The IMF said “efforts will continue” to stop El Salvador from buying Bitcoin after it reached a $120 million payment ...

El Salvador added eight additional BTC to its crypto reserves despite International Monetary Fund warnings. The IMF recently ...

Blog posts represent the views of CFR fellows and staff and not those of CFR, which takes no institutional positions. El Salvador’s recent $1.4 billion bailout by the International Monetary Fund ...

El Salvador secured a $120 million payout from the IMF as part of its $1.4 billion loan agreement, on condition of reducing Bitcoin exposure.

Remittances to El Salvador, a small, highly dollarised economy that Bukele is pivoting from a failed bitcoin experiment shut down by the IMF to being an offshore prison for US undesirables ...