The New York Times
THE HIGH PRICE OF SAFETY IN EL SALVADOR
You hear “world’s coolest dictator” Nayib Bukele is a either a cruel tyrant or a bold visionary. As he starts his 2nd (unconstitutional) term, I went to El Salvador to hear from people who’ve lost basic rights but gained safety. It was complicated. Some 81k prisoners are held incommunicado.
Thousands of children as young as 12 have been detained, and some of them have been tortured.
Der Spiegel
THE HIPSTER AUTOCRAT CLEANS UP
He calls himself the “coolest dictator in the world”, politicians throughout Latin America admire him. Ruler Nayib Bukele has freed El Salvador from the rule of brutal gangs. But which one?
Le Temps
Céline Janin, chocolaterie fine helvétique au Salvador
La Vaudoise fabrique au Salvador des douceurs inspirées des meilleures chocolateries fines de Suisse – tout en soutenant la culture ancestrale du cacao dans le pays.
Der Spiegel
In a beach resort in El Salvador, Bitcoin fans from all over the world are studying how the digital currency is proving its worth in everyday life. The results are mixed.
The Wall Street Journal
THE COUNTRY WITH THE HIGHEST MURDER RATE HAS THE HIGHEST INCARCERATION RATE
El Salvador President Nayib Bukele kicked off a gang crackdown that has strong support from locals who can now live and do business safely, but it faces questions from rights groups
Dei Zeit
It was supposed to be a grand humanitarian gesture. In December 2021, the new Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock announced in Berlin an extensive evacuation program for particularly vulnerable Afghans.
Private Magazine
A resident tries to salvage anything from the apartment which was damaged after a missile destroyed a building which was being used as a base by the Ukranian military in Bakhmut, Donetsk Oblast. The building around the are were heavily damaged as the Russian army has begun a heavy assault in the Donabass area
Der Spiegel
Cover of the German magazine on the return to power of the Taliban in Afghanistan
L'Obs
Cover of the French magazine about the Taliban coming back to power in Afghanistan.
Internazionale
El Salvador's populist president is increasingly authoritarian and centralizing. The loyalty of the military is important to his political project, which he achieves by allocating more funds and increasing the pay of simple soldiers
Revista Factum
THE GOVERNMENT PAID MORE THAN $4.7 MILLION FOR CHIVO WALLET ATMS
The costs include the Chivo Wallet software, the implementation and maintenance of 255 ATMs and points of sale for bitcoin payments. The software was purchased from a Colombian company whose engineers worked in the country for four months.
National Geographic (USA)
WHAT AFGHANISTAN AND THE WROLD COULD LOSE WITH THE TALIBAN RETURN
More than a decade ago, a National Geographic writer saw warning signs the U.S. commitment would flag—and fragile democratic advances that could now be undone.
La Croix (France)
L’Argus de l’Assurance (Canada)
WHAT EXCLUSION CLAUSES IN THE EVENT OF CYBERWAR
L’Association du marché du Lloyd’s a souhaité clarifier les clauses d’exclusion en cas de cyberguerre. Dans le contexte du conflit en Ukraine, les assureurs exerçant en France pourraient s’inspirer de ces nouvelles clauses.
The Wall Street Journal (USA)
CAN BITCOIN BE A NATIONAL CURRENCY? EL SALVADOR IS TRYING TO FIND OUT
The country made bitcoin legal tender last September and now is aiming to raise $1 billion to fund expansive economic policies by cashing in on the crypto craze. But the IMF warns bitcoin is too risky, and Salvadorans are mostly sticking to dollars.
Courrier International (France)
Der Spiegel
The Red Bull Bulletin
WHY EL SALVADOR IS BANKING ON BITCOIN
Our report focuses on how El Salvador could be about to become the only country in the world that uses Bitcoin as a digital national currency – get the lowdown here.
The New Yorker
THE U.S. RETALIATION FOR THE KABUL BOMBING WON'T STOP ISIS OR END TERRORISM
In April, 2017, the United States unleashed a twenty-two-thousand-pound bomb on a complex of caves and tunnels used by ISIS-K, or the Islamic State Khorasan, in eastern Afghanistan. Nicknamed “the mother of all bombs,” it was the largest non-nuclear bomb ever used in combat.
El País (Spain)
CAOS, GOLPES U DESESPERACION EN TORNO AL AEROPUERTO DE KABUL
“Hay que llegar como sea”
Miles de personas se agolpan en las puertas de acceso al aeródromo controladas por los soldados estadounidenses desesperadas por dejar el país. Solo hay una ley para poder salir: la del más fuerte.
View Magazin (Germany)
Internazionale (Italy)
Nella provincia afgana di Daikondi, abitata in gran parte dalla minoranza sciita, i pashtun requisiscono case e terreni e cacciano i proprietari
Der Spiegel (Germany)
Virginia Quarterly Review - VQR (USA)
(Magazine's cover and feature story)
San Salvador’s upstart mayor, Nayib Bukele, has promised a new way forward for a city besieged by decades of violence. His biggest obstacle, however, may not be the city’s gangs, but the city’s idea of itself.
Though San Salvador’s Mercado Central is statistically one of the most dangerous zones of one of the most dangerous cities in the world, an outsider wouldn’t know it just by walking through. It is, admittedly, congested, stretching across a few dozen blocks that throb with tens of thousands of vendors, clogging the roads of the Salvadoran capital’s heart with makeshift stalls and tables that spill over with anything you could think to buy: stacks of clothes and fruit, underwear, cheap plastic toys, bars of soap, knockoffs of coveted North American brands—Levis, Converse, Adidas, Nike.
