Bitcoin Changes in El Salvador
Greenland’s Shift
President Trump has repeatedly called for acquiring Greenland to be part of USA. As US pressure mounts Danish rule in Greenland that dates 200 years could be coming to an end. Greenlanders are not happy with their Danish government after a policy of forced sterilization of girls without their or their parents consent has come to light. Greenland has the highest suicide rate in the world, surpassing that of the runner up Guyana by almost a factor of three. If US managed to acquire the world’s biggest island it would jump from being the fourth largest country in the world with 9.8 million square kilometers to being the second largest with 12 million square kilometers. US with Greenland would surpass China and Canada and place just behind Russia with 16.4 million square kilometres.
Solar Disaster
The Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System, located in California’s Mojave Desert, is set to close after just 11 years of operation and a cost of $2.2 billion. The facility is the world’s largest thermal solar power plant with 173,000 heliostats that focuses sunrays onto a 459 foot tower. The 4,000 acre folly is proving not only an energy failure by not delivering nearly enough GWh projected, but also as an ecological disaster on a massive scale. The “eco” solar plant had killed turtles by the thousands and insects by the millions. Ivanpah also became world’s biggest animal incinerator as the facility created a death trap for birds with its heliostat mirrors burning to death tens of thousands of falcon, owls and warblers as the flew by its mirrors.
Honduras Elections
On Sunday March 9, Honduras held its every four years primary elections. While Liberal party’s Salvador Nasralla beat Jorge Cálix, the ruling Libre party’s Rixi Moncada, who is currently Secretary of National Defense and Secretary of Finance, easily beat Rasel Tome. National’s party Tegucigalpa Mayor Nasry Asfura beat Ana García de Hernández, the wife of US jailed ex-president Juan Orlando Hernández. General elections are scheduled for November 30 to determine the next president and 128 deputies.
El Salvador’s Prisons
El Salvador’s prison experiment with its gang members has made a left turn. On February 4, after a one day visit from US’s Secretary of State Marco Rubio, El Salvador’s president Bukele agreed to house violent criminals currently held in US jails regardless of their held nationality. This agreement has little precedent around the world. Some of these criminals will be Salvadorians that are MS-13 gang members, others would be the Venezuelan Tren de Aragua gang members, and also U.S. citizens and legal residents with no US nationality. They are planed to be housed in El Salvador’s CECOT maximum security mega-prison that houses 15,000 currently, but has a capacity for 40,000.
Panama Drama
Upon taking office in January 2025 president Trump criticized Panama for allowing China a growing influence over its strategic waterway canal. According to sources Trump has ordered the military to draw up a plan how it could seize the canal. US acquired the rights to build and operate the canal, but in 1974 sold it to Panama for $1 and its control ceased in 1999. US and Panama agreed however to defend the canal against any threat to its neutrality allowing for a unilateral action to be taken to reestablish it. In March the Hong Kong-based conglomerate CK Hutchison Holdings Ltd. allowed a US based Black Rock-led consortium to purchase Panama Canal ports Port of Cristobal and Port of Balboa for $22 billion.
