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El Salvador is in no danger of defaulting on its debt. It has offered to buy back its debt maturing before 2025.

Mario Gómez was briefly detained by police in El Salvador on suspicion of being involved in a phishing scam and then released. There are many vocal critics of President Bukele and his bitcoin policy in El Salvador's Assembly and the legacy press. None have been jailed.

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> Mario Gómez was briefly detained by police in El Salvador on suspicion of being involved in a phishing scam and then released.

But weren't those suspicions just some tweets by one of the president's parties congress members that were deleted afterwards? And amplified by government aligned social media (:

> There are many vocal critics of President Bukele and his bitcoin policy in El Salvador's Assembly and the legacy press. None have been jailed.

Not jailed, just "kindly" invited to ask for asylum in other countries by the president of the legislative assembly (:

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