(Natural News) El Salvador’s congress has approved emergency powers that suspend constitutional freedoms and ease arrest rules for 30 days to battle a record wave of gang-related killings that forced business closures and the postponement of public events. The measures, which were requested by President Nayib Bukele on Saturday, March 26, and passed by legislators the following […]

(Natural News) The 2021 iteration of the AmericasBarometer survey found that support for democracy is waning across the Americas. It also found that respondents from 18 out of 22 countries believe their government leaders are corrupt and cannot be trusted. More than 60,000 voting-age adults across North, Central and South America – including the Caribbean […]

(Natural News) The tiny Central American nation of El Salvador saw a rocky start on its first day of adopting the bitcoin cryptocurrency as legal tender. The country passed a law in June 2021 mandating its use as legal currency alongside the U.S. dollar. But the first day of the rollout on Sept. 7 hit […]