Bukele Tightens Grip On Internet

CENTRAL AMERICA IN MINUTES, Ep. 6: After the express approval of a new data privacy law in El Salvador, a freshly created State Cybersecurity Agency will order the removal of online content deemed “inadequate” or “inexact” from the internet. Nayib Bukele declares on X that El Salvador’s watershed 2017 prohibition of metallic mining is “absurd”. In Nicaragua, toxic mining and settler violence against Indigenous communities in affected areas run deep. The IMF is reportedly close to a $1.4 billion dollar deal with El Salvador in the coming weeks, all while the Fund reports that Nicaragua —which is in the middle of dismantling the separation of powers— “is maintaining robust economic performance.” El Faro English translates Central America. Listen to Central America in Minutes every Friday on major podcast platforms.Help fund independent journalism in Central America by joining our crowdfunding community at support.elfaro.net. Be sure to subscribe and leave us a review. Our mantra this year at El Faro English is simple: Journalism must go on.