El Salvador

Costa Rica hydro plant gets new lease on life from crypto mining

A small river in the middle of coffee plantations, sugar cane fields and a forest provides energy to a hydroelectric…

4 years ago

Analysis: United States, China tussle over Honduras as it weighs Taiwan ties

A pledge by a leading Honduran presidential candidate to embrace China and de-emphasize Taiwan ties if she wins Sunday's election…

4 years ago

Analysis: Amid Bukele’s bitcoin hype, not all Salvadorans ‘Feel the Bit’

El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele took the stage last weekend at the end of "Bitcoin Week" to the cheers of…

4 years ago

Analysis: Workers at Chile’s Escondida mine hit jackpot, raise bar in labor talks elsewhere

An historic benefits package at BHP's (BHP.AX) sprawling Escondida copper mine has raised the prospect for tough new negotiations and strikes at…

4 years ago

World Bank rejects El Salvador request for help on bitcoin implementation

SAN SALVADOR, June 16 (Reuters) - The World Bank said on Wednesday it could not assist El Salvador's bitcoin implementation…

4 years ago

Bitcoin law is only latest head-turner by El Salvador’s ‘millennial’ president

The young president of small Central American nation El Salvador leapt to worldwide fame this week after his country became…

4 years ago

Analysis: Remittance firms slow to add bitcoin, despite El Salvador move

El Salvador may be touting bitcoin's use to help its citizens living abroad send funds back home, but the biggest…

4 years ago

Analysis: Remittance firms slow to add bitcoin, despite El Salvador move

El Salvador may be touting bitcoin's use to help its citizens living abroad send funds back home, but the biggest…

4 years ago

Does money grow on volcanoes? El Salvador explores bitcoin mining

El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele said on Wednesday that he has instructed state-owned geothermal electric firm LaGeo to develop a…

4 years ago