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The Digital Shift: Redefining Insurance with Smarter Payments
Banking Dive
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Fewer Dollars Flowing to Mexico After Surge in Deportations
Liberty Nation News
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August 27, 2025
President Donald Trump’s crackdown on illegal immigration has had rippling effects that are just now starting to make themselves known. One such impact is in Mexico. Its economy is undergoing a change directly related to remittances: money earned...
Family member of infants burned alive by cartel thanks Trump for crackdown: ‘Hopeful for the first time’
Fox News
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Adriana Jones, whose sister, nieces and nephews were killed by cartel violence near the border, told Fox News Digital that she feels "hopeful for the first time in a long time" under the Trump administration. NEWYou can now listen to Fox News...
Private Violence: Latin American Women and the Struggle for Asylum
Minnesota Women's Press
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August 27, 2025
In Private Violence: Latin American Women and the Struggle for Asylum, we present the stories of dozens of women from northern Central America and Mexico that exemplify the desperate need for reform to the American asylum process. The women we...
Bukele Resets El Salvador’s Constitution—and the Clock on Presidential Limits
LatinAmerican Post
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August 1, 2025
In less than a day, El Salvador’s legislature erased five constitutional guardrails, clearing the way for President Nayib Bukele to seek indefinite reelection and extending presidential terms—an audacious gamble that’s dividing the country between...
Lack of oversight at immigrant detention centers concerns Texas advocates
Kiowa County Press - Colorado
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August 27, 2025
Click play to listen to an abbreviated version of this article. A child developed a rash after he was prevented from changing his underwear for four days. A little boy, bored and overcome with despair, began hitting himself in the head. A child...
Crypto Alliance: Bolivia And El Salvador Sign Pact As Economy Wobbles
Bitcoinist
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August 1, 2025
Bolivia’s Central Bank and El Salvador’s Digital Assets Commission signed a deal this week to work together on crypto rules and tools. It went into effect right away and has no end date, at least based on initial reports. According to the...
Just-In: El Salvador’s Bukele Re-elected As President
Coingape
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August 1, 2025
In a surprising development, El Salvador’s ruling party has approved a constitutional reform allowing President Nayib Bukele to potentially serve another term. This development is expected to have significant implications for the country’s Bitcoin...
What We’re Watching: Another US tariff announcement, El Salvador leader can now rule indefinitely, Indonesian president pardons opponents
GZERO Media
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August 1, 2025
US hits the world with fresh wave of tariffs US President Donald Trump slapped new tariffs on 92 countries, including key allies. Canada, the US’s number two trade partner, was hit with a 35% rate. Taiwan, a critical semiconductor supplier, also...
Bolivia Labels Crypto a Viable Alternative to Fiat in El Salvador Deal
Economy Watch
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July 31, 2025
Please note that we are not authorised to provide any investment advice. The content on this page is for information purposes only. On July 30, the Central Bank of Bolivia signed a landmark agreement with El Salvador’s National Commission of...
Troops in Washington and Fed dismissals: Trump embraces authoritarian drift
El País
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August 27, 2025
U.S. President Donald Trump claims he’s not a dictator, just “a man with great common sense.” But this statement, made Monday to the press in the Oval Office, reinforces previous messages flirting with the idea of an authoritarian leader: during...
Extraordinarily Renditioned Migrants Report Back From El Salvador’s Maximum Security Hellhole
Techdirt
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July 29, 2025
from the we're-all-just-hourly-workers-on-the-US-Death-Star dept President Trump wanted a war on Latin Americans and found an obliging partner in El Salvador, currently headed by President Nayib Bukele. Bukele has managed to bring down El...
‘Living laboratory’: Trump admin urged to look to South America for lessons on fighting migrant gangs
Fox News
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Jose Arocha, a former lieutenant colonel in the Venezuelan military, told Fox News Digital that the recent U.S. intel community report denying Tren de Aragua is linked to the Venezuelan dictatorship is missing a key aspect. NEWYou can now listen...
A woman's choice to self-deport from Sarasota pushes her family to consider the same
WUSF - Florida
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August 27, 2025
On a July afternoon, at her home in Sarasota, Lourdes Martinez runs her hands over the clothes hanging in her daughter's closet. She's packing a suitcase to send to Mexico, where her daughter, Maria, will be in a week after choosing to...
How to get the best exchange rate when transferring money to Latin America
Dataconomy
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August 27, 2025
The rise of fintechs has also led to the rise of international money transfers, as they provide migrants with more convenient, faster, and cheaper options for remitting money to their families back home. In fact, these remittances are fast...
Majority of U.S. small businesses now use AI amid rising regulatory concerns
Detroit City Wire - Michigan
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August 27, 2025
Sandy K. Baruah, President and CEO | Detroit Regional ChamberSandy K. Baruah, President and CEO | Detroit Regional Chamber Almost 60 percent of small businesses in the United States are now using artificial intelligence, according to the latest...
CDC director is out after less than a month on the job, HHS says. Here’s how it unfolded.
The Boston Globe - Massachusetts
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pinned Other news of the day: Trump speaks with Walz after Minnesota school shooting: A White House official confirmed that Trump had spoken with Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, and Trump said in a Truth Social post that he was briefed on the “tragic...
All at Sea in the Parkville Asylum
Quadrant
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August 27, 2025
And all I ask is a tall ship, and a star to steer her by. — John Masefield, Sea Fever (1902). It is quite wrong, apparently, to believe Melbourne University academics patrol the far frontiers of cloud cuckoo land. After all, according to the...
You might have heard about the flesh-eating screwworm. Here's why you shouldn't freak out
CBC/Radio-Canada
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August 27, 2025
Warning: This story contains images of an open wound that some people may find disturbing. Just when you thought there was enough going on in the world to frazzle your nerves, along comes a flesh-eating parasite that has been spreading among...
Ada and Her Family Fled El Salvador. She Died Alone in the New Mexico Desert
Rolling Stone
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July 29, 2025
H er skeleton lay in the open air. When they first approached the site, in the desert of Sunland Park, New Mexico, in August 2024, the volunteer search party found a body dispersed across the landscape, a rib here, a leg bone there. An intact...