CENTRAL AMERICA IN MINUTES, Ep. 16: Rosario Murillo orders the removal of presidential security advisor Horacio Rocha and interim Supreme Court president Marvin Aguilar as Murillo, the newly minted “co-president” of Nicaragua, prepares to nominate a reduced nine-seat Supreme Court in her image. Nayib Bukele slates changes to the Salvadoran penal code to make soldiers “agents of authority” when “accompanying or carrying out functions of public security”, despite the constitution’s reservation of those tasks for the National Civil Police. In exchange for extensive cooperation with the Trump administration to receive increased regional deportees, Bukele asks the U.S. to deport MS-13 leaders who are on trial in New York, and with whom he had negotiated a reduction in homicides.

In the bitcoin world, El Salvador is a tech pioneer, success story, and free speech paradise. That El Salvador is actually a country afraid to express opinions, and that, by order of the IMF, bitcoin is no longer tender, is a side note, writes @raudaz_

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RT @ricardovalp: Bukele's on Trump's hands and Bukele appears to know it. Write @elfaroenglish, -during his pres campaign- Trump accused Bu…

RT @Perez1oj: Great piece about the real dynamics in #ElSalvador - USA relations under #Bukele & #Trump by ⁦@ricardovalp⁩ “El Salvador has…

RT @ricardovalp: Bukele is scrambling to seal a dangerous vulnerability in his U.S. relationship: his secret dealings with Salvadoran gangs…

Rather than admiration, Bukele’s government appears to be terrified of Trump, writes @ricardovalp in #efOpinion. He’s betting that the only power that can truly hurt him resides in Washington. There is no friendship, no “bromance” — only desperation.

RT @_elfaro_: OPINION | With each passing year, the government of El Salvador increases its level of aggression against the press. 🖋️ @se…

RT @jbwashing: For anybody following or reporting on El Salvador's offer to incarcerate migrants or non-migrants or engage in "safe third c…

RT @glabrador: Nayib Bukele has agreed to incarcerate people of any nationality in prisons directed by Osiris Luna, a top official sanction…

Nayib Bukele has agreed to incarcerate people of any nationality in prisons directed by Osiris Luna, a top official sanctioned by the U.S. for covert gang negotiations. In exchange, he wants past gang negotiators to be deported back to El Salvador despite indictments in New York.

During Joe Biden’s presidency, one issue seemed to bring together Honduras, Guatemala, El Salvador, and Nicaragua: their rebuffing of corruption sanctions with sovereignty rhetoric. With Donald Trump back in the White House, those times of narrow unity are over. Each country is forging its own path.

With Trump back in the White House, Bukele offers sweeping deportation cooperation while asking the U.S. to send back MS-13 leaders awaiting trial. Trump says Panama is not going far enough in shunning China, while Guatemala has agreed to accept regional deportees in exchange for support for infrastructure projects.

The government of El Salvador has promoted an anti-press attitude, spreading fear to every newsroom, writes @apeselsalvador president @sergioarauz in #efOpinion. The hostilities will turn into more violence, a sore spot in the propaganda of a safe country.

El Salvador plans to revive a never-implemented 2019 agreement with the Trump administration to receive asylum seekers. A Trump envoy said they will also seek to have Salvadoran prisons hold Tren de Aragua deportees if Venezuela refuses to receive them.

RT @_elfaro_: The Salvadoran Legislative Assembly ratified changes to the 1983 Constitution that upend the Salvadoran political and legal s…

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