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Relatives and neighbours carry one of five people who died after a mudslide caused by constant rains, in Huizucar, El Salvador September 22, 2022. REUTERS/Jose Cabezas
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At least seven dead after landslides in El Salvador

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El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele speaks during a ceremony to lay the first stone of Chivo Vet, a veterinary hospital financed with the gains El Salvador has obtained from its bitcoin operations, in Antiguo Cuscatlan, El Salvador November 1, 2021. REUTERS/Jose Cabezas
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El Salvador plans first 'Bitcoin City', backed by bitcoin bonds

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El Salvador to use bitcoin gains to fund veterinary hospital, president says

Around 1,000 protesters took the the streets of San Salvador opposing the Latin American country's adoption of Bitcoin. Picture: Collected
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Protests erupt in El Salvador as Bitcoin crashes

Representations of cryptocurrencies Bitcoin, Ethereum, DogeCoin, Ripple, Litecoin are placed on PC motherboard in this illustration taken June 29, 2021. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration
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El Salvador leads the world into cryptocurrency: Bitcoin legal tender

A Salvador's soldier secures the perimeter of the site where authorities were excavating a clandestine mass grave discovered at a house of a former police officer containing many bodies, most of them believed to be women in Chalchuapa, El Salvador June 3, 2021. Picture taken June 3, 2021. REUTERS/Jose Cabezas
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El Salvador 'House of Horrors' killings shock nation numbed to violence

A Bitcoin coin is seen in an illustration picture taken at La Maison du Bitcoin in Paris, France Photo: Reuters
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Bitcoin to become legal tender in El Salvador on 7 September

El Salvador's Finance Minister Alejandro Zelaya speaks during a news conference in San Salvador, El Salvador June 16, 2021. REUTERS/Jose Cabezas
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World Bank rejects El Salvador request for help on bitcoin implementation

A Bitcoin coin is seen in an illustration picture taken at La Maison du Bitcoin in Paris, France Photo: Reuters
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IMF sees legal, economic issues with El Salvador bitcoin move

Attorney General Rodolfo Delgado arrives at a news conference at the site where authorities are excavating a clandestine cemetery discovered at the house of a former police officer and containing many bodies, most of them believed to be women in Chalchuapa, El Salvador May 21, 2021. REUTERS/Jose Cabezas/File Photo
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El Salvador ends anti-corruption accord with OAS, dismaying US

Jose de la Cruz, father of Mirna Cruz Lima and grandfather of Jacquelinne Palomo Lima and Alexis Palomo Lima, who were murdered by former policeman Hugo Ernesto Osorio Chavez in the site where authorities are excavating a clandestine cemetery discovered at his house and containing many bodies, most of them believed to be women in Chalchuapa, El Salvador May 27, 2021. REUTERS/Jose Cabezas
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‘My soul has left me’: family grieves after El Salvador mass grave discovered

Police officers secure a news conference at the site where authorities are excavating a clandestine cemetery discovered at the house of a former police officer and containing many bodies, most of them believed to be women in Chalchuapa, El Salvador May 20, 2021. REUTERS/Jose Cabezas
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Grim task of digging up bodies continues at crime scene in El Salvador