September
- Analysis
- Immigration
Feeling trapped, migrants’ fears grow in Mexican border city
After more than a week at this crossing on the US-Mexico border, Haitian migrants feel like the walls are beginning to close in on them.
- Maria Verza
- Opinion
- Bitcoin
Crypto swoon over tiny El Salvador much ado about nothing
Local opposition to President Nayib Bukele’s bitcoin plan is widespread, suggesting take-up will be low. A damp squib is more likely than the financial dislocation some critics are prophesying.
- The Lex Column
El Salvador’s world-first adoption of bitcoin endures bumpy first day
Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele complained that the government-backed bitcoin app was not available on various internet platforms, including Apple and Huawei.
- Nelson Renteria and Anthony Esposito
- Analysis
- Cryptocurrencies
El Salvador becomes a crypto laboratory with bitcoin gamble
Twenty years after it adopted the US dollar as its national currency, the tiny Central American nation is about to officially become the first country in the world to make bitcoin legal tender.
- Updated
- Christine Murray
