Tag Archives: El Salvador

From the hammock of her home on the outskirts of San Salvador, Nancy Turcios watched soldiers pass by shortly after her brother walked out the door. She reached the street when they were already swarming around a group of men and felt for her feet, trying to identify the searchers. …

Bitcoin was supposed to transform El Salvador’s economy, projecting the poor Central American country as an unlikely harbinger of a financial revolution. But nearly a year after its chairman, Nayib Bukele, shocked the financial world by turning its most popular digital currency into a national currency, the gamble appears to …