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Friday, Aug 28, 2026
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Honduran Peasant Groups Demand Repeal of Controversial Agroindustrial Law

Thousands of rural activists in Honduras have submitted petitions seeking repeal of an agroindustrial law that exempts industrial land from expropriation and requires stronger police action against rural occupations, intensifying tensions over land rights.
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El Salvador to Host International Congress Focused on Solo Female Travelers

El Salvador’s Ministry of Tourism says the country will host an international congress dedicated to solo female travelers, using improved public safety conditions to pursue grow...

El Salvador Advances Metropolitan Cable Car Project in San Salvador

Construction of a new metropolitan cable car system in San Salvador has reached key development milestones, with the project intended to ease traffic congestion, modernize publi...

Central American Growth Outlook Shows Costa Rica and Panama Outpacing Regional Average

International financial institutions expect Costa Rica and Panama to grow by about four percent in two thousand twenty-six, putting both economies ahead of the broader Latin Ame...

El Salvador Provides Emergency Aid to Farmers After Record August Heat

El Salvador’s Ministry of Agriculture has launched emergency food and financial assistance for small and medium-sized rural producers after a severe August heatwave broke fourte...

Fitch Solutions Sees El Salvador Growth Moderating to Three Percent in 2026

Fitch Solutions expects El Salvador’s real gross domestic product growth to slow to three percent in two thousand twenty-six, as infrastructure projects support activity while h...

El Salvador’s Surf City Corridor Draws More Tourism and Real Estate Investment

International hospitality developers and real estate investors are expanding along El Salvador’s Surf City coastal corridor, encouraged by government infrastructure upgrades and...

Guatemala Overtakes United States as Top Source of International Visitors to El Salvador

Guatemala became the largest source of international visitors to El Salvador during the August holiday season, with cross-border overland travel rising forty-three percent as im...

El Salvador Expands International Airport Capacity Ahead of New Flights From Spain

El Salvador’s new fifty million United States dollar arrivals terminal at Monsenor Oscar Arnulfo Romero International Airport has expanded processing capacity to four thousand f...

Bitcoin Payments Fall to Near Zero in El Zonte as Merchant Use Becomes Voluntary

Everyday Bitcoin payments in El Zonte, the coastal community known as Bitcoin Beach, have fallen to near-zero levels, according to on-chain data and local reporting, following c...

El Salvador Advances Artificial Intelligence and Cloud Infrastructure Plans

Salvadoran technology and economic officials are developing plans for a state data center and broader migration to cloud computing, with a long-term goal of generating twenty pe...

El Salvador Holds 7,751 Bitcoin Worth About $599 Million

El Salvador’s national treasury holds seven thousand seven hundred fifty-one Bitcoin valued at approximately five hundred ninety-nine million United States dollars, continuing a...
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