All news on the topic: El Salvador

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The Venezuelan link to El Salvador’s pandemic food aid fraud
In the chaotic first week of the Covid pandemic, El Salvador paid an offshore company US$27 million to provide milk powder for its hungry citizens –– but the shell firm overcharged and under-delivered, pocketing $7 million, a government audit found.
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El Salvador mega prison detains dangerous criminals where ’no one sleeps’
Inmates inside El Salvador’s Centre for the Confinement of Terrorism face brutal conditions with 80 crammed into one cell and no natural daylight as President Bukele takes a tough crackdown on drugs gangs
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Worth their weight in tantalum: indispensable capacitors for missiles and drones make their way into Russia via Lithuania and China
Tantalum capacitors are irreplaceable electronic elements that can be found in all sorts of devices — including the Korsar and Shahed drones Russia uses against Ukraine.
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Fake nurse ‘steals’ newborn baby from hospital by stuffing it in rucksack
Footage shows a woman dressed up as a nurse who stole a baby from a hospital in El Salvador having said to the mother that she needed to give him some immunisations
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Inmates inside one of world's toughest prisons take social behaviour class
Inmates at the Terrorism Confinement Center in El Salvador, known as one of the world's toughest prisons, attended a social behaviour class this week