Bitcoin suddenly surged in the past 24 hours. According to Coinmarketcap, the amount of Bitcoin traded in the last 24 hours is about 35.9 billion USD, the market capitalization recorded at 697.4 billion USD. Many large-cap cryptocurrencies skyrocketed with Bitcoin. Specifically, Ethereum is up 3.6% to $2,608, Binance Coin is up 6.8%, Cardano is up 3%, Ripple is up 2.6%, Uniswap is up 7.3%, Bitcoin Cash is up 6.1%, Litecoin is up 2.6% 6.8%, Chainlink up 5.6%… The strong momentum of Bitcoin and leading cryptocurrencies caused the total capitalization to increase by 6.5% to more than $1,630 billion. According to many professional traders, the driving force behind the growth of Bitcoin comes from the fact that El Salvador – the first country to consider Bitcoin digital currency as legal. Channel France24 quoted El Salvador President Nayib Bukele’s statement on Twitter, saying that the Bitcoin Law has just been approved with a majority vote. The bill proposed by Mr Bukele to parliament last weekend was approved by 62 out of 84 MPs. “It’s a historical mark,” Nayib Bukele shared on Twitter. Before the vote, Mr. Bukele affirmed that the adoption of digital currency will bring finance, investment, tourism, innovation and comprehensive economic development to this Central American country. According to him, Bitcoin is the fastest way to transfer billions of dollars of remittances to El Salvador without losing millions of dollars to intermediaries. Remittances from El Salvadorans working abroad make up a major part of the country’s economy, equivalent to about 22% of gross domestic product. According to official reports, in 2020, the amount of remittances to this country will reach 5.9 billion USD. “This is the law that will make El Salvador a place of international interest. We will be more attractive to foreign investment.” Romeo Auerbach, Vice President of the National Union of Solidarity Party in El Salvador, said. Bitcoin is a highly volatile virtual currency. After reaching an all-time high at 64,800 USD on April 14, this virtual currency has plummeted without brakes. The reason comes from Elon Musk’s announcement that Tesla will stop accepting Bitcoin because of controversial carbon emissions issues and China’s tightening ban on cryptocurrency trading and banning Bitcoin mining rigs. Many countries have also recently introduced new regulations to control activities related to cryptocurrencies.

Sweating in the Sunday afternoon sun, visitors check in to the online system – no proof of residency is required – and right after that they get a free dose of Johnson & Johnson’s vaccine and receive get a vaccination card. Many tourists in need of vaccination have flown from abroad to Miami Beach, USA People are coming from all over Latin America like Ecuador, El Salvador, Venezuela, where the implementation of vaccination is slow or there is a shortage of vaccine supply. “In my country, Covid-19 is getting out of hand and there is not much chance that we will have access to a vaccine anytime soon,” Maria Bonilla, from the Republic of Honduras, told AFP on Saturday. . The 40-year-old accountant flew to Miami with her 63-year-old and 73-year-old parents. The three of them stood in line together, wearing masks. “We decided to look for a solution outside of the country,” Bonilla said. On Friday, 50-year-old Blanca Diaz, from Mexico, reached the same conclusion: “They’re just starting to vaccinate the elderly,” she said of the Covid-19 vaccination situation in her homeland. myself. Bonilla is acutely aware of her privilege to be able to travel with her parents for vaccinations. “Unfortunately vaccination has created a divide as some of us have access to health protection and others do not,” Bonilla said. Miami City Commissioner David Richardson, a Democrat, told AFP he had mixed feelings about tourists coming to Miami Beach to get vaccinated. He said: “I think we, the US government should help as many people as possible. My only concern is that it seems that people who can afford to buy plane tickets can come to the US and get vaccinated. right now but what about the poor people in South America?”. Richardson also requested, urging the US government to send the vaccine support abroad “so that everyone can access the vaccine, not just the people who can afford to come here”. On Sunday, the Johnson & Johnson vaccination counter had injected about 175 people. This is a popular vaccine brand among travelers because only a single dose is required. (According to TNN/Dan Tri)

Two smugglers are sitting in the car with two migrants – who want to illegally cross into the US in the back seat. The target group will use that steel pole as a temporary ladder to lift two people who want to cross the wall and enter the United States. Each week, tens of thousands of people migrate to the United States, mostly unaccompanied minors. The increase in the number of migrants once again overwhelms the unprepared immigration system of the United States, which has faced over the years but has not yet addressed its dilemma – shortages. Equipment facilities, overcrowded refugee zones … That’s the consequence of a flourishing illegal trafficking activity again in this area. The border wall at the US-Mexico border separates El Paso, Texas and Ciudad Júarez, Mexico. Bringing smuggled migrants – a lucrative “business” industry The two smugglers mentioned above are brothers. They are the guys who specialize in bringing people into America with the help of his brother’s 14-year-old son. There is very little data available to accurately quantify the number of migrants who use the services of smugglers to take the journey they think will change their lives. But most experts agree that many have used a smuggler for at least part of their journey, in ways that can vary from taking a taxi between towns to a full package. migrate. According to a 2018 report by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime estimated that more than 800,000 migrants from around the world illegally crossed into Mexico and since then, smuggled or attempted to find your way into the US each year, based on a review of data from 2014 and 2015. Only a small fraction of migrants avoid being arrested before reaching their final destination in the United States, despite the hefty fees paid to make the trip. According to the report, costs can range from a few hundred dollars to tens of thousands of dollars depending on a number of factors, largely based on the total distance of the journey and how many borders need to be crossed. This amount can leave migrants penniless, many of them migrating in the first place due to extreme poverty in their country of origin. The UN report estimates that business attempting to bring people into Mexico and the United States illegally is worth about $ 4 billion a year, according to data from 2014 and 2015. A woman and three young children race toward a wall on the US-Mexico border in Ciudad Júarez, Mexico. Locations of cartel bosses According to investigative documents, a large portion of the money spent on smuggling will fall into the hands of organized crime, especially in Mexico. Victor Manjarrez, former Head of Border Patrol in El Paso, Texas, said: “Human smuggling is a multimillion-dollar industry and I would venture to guess it was moving toward an industry. billion USD. Manjarrez says organized crime groups have used the money to create sophisticated smuggling networks that, in some cases, operate across the country. “It’s almost like a Fortune 500 company tackling their supply chain,” he said. It is a ruthless business, people migrate as commodities, not people, and they are certainly exploited. ” One of the brothers interviewed by CNN, the Ciudad Júarez smuggler said he was recruited for the job after moving to his home on the border. “Some people asked me if I wanted to join, and I said yes. That’s why I’m here.” In this case, the “guys” he alluded to were members of the Júarez gang – one of Mexico’s oldest and most powerful organized crime groups – whose smugglers said they worked on duty. continued. The two brothers told CNN, each migrant must pay $ 2,000 to cross the border here. The smugglers then receive a salary, or commission for their work. It’s a system that operates across the US-Mexico border. Traffickers who operate in these areas almost always operate in one of two ways – working directly for the gang in charge of that individual or working independently but paying the gang a tax to get it. the right to transit the above smuggling line. “Most smugglers engage in complex activities either get to know each other due to kinship or friendship, or have entered into ad hoc partnerships with larger, well-resourced groups. more “, according to a 2018 United Nations report. US President Joe Biden has stopped building the US – Mexico border wall. Go north Tens of thousands of migrants have fled their homeland in Central America for a multitude of reasons, poverty and corruption continue to rage in countries like Honduras, and food insecurity is on the rise. like Guatemala, and gang violence continues to pervade El Salvador. Two major Category 4 hurricanes also hit the region late last year, destroying social infrastructure, and the COVID-19 pandemic continuing to devastate troubled regional economies. Stories of rape and abuse often occur in migrant areas along the border. Psychologist Claudia Grisel Villalobos Esparza, who works at Nohemí Álvarez Quillay, a shelter for unaccompanied minors in Ciudad Júarez, said. The families of the smugglers, led by the two brothers, told CNN they have heard of so many cases of abuse. They even brought up smugglers who, a few weeks earlier, had released two children across a border wall not far from their home – a case that caused a stir in America. While it is not possible to verify how they treat migrants, even if they treat migrants well, it is not for the sake of migrants. According to experts such as the psychologist at Ciudad Júarez, each time they are compensated for their work, these employees help maintain a system of kidnappings, rape, extortion, and even Murderous lice are rampant. While extensive data quantifying the specific threats migrants face smugglers is not available, the Human Rights First report released last month reported at least 492 attacks. public and abduction of asylum seekers. A 2017 report by Medicins San Frontieres found that nearly a third of the women migrating from Mexico interviewed had experienced some form of sexual abuse on their journey north, nearly 70% of all. interviewed had experienced violence in some form. The last stage of the journey CNN chose to document the smuggler’s progress to shed light on what’s happening along the daily border as the immigration debate is taking place within the United States. Returning to the blue sedan incident, after plunging from a side street, it stopped a few hundred meters on the road in front of us. The two men stepped out and went to get the makeshift ladder, which is the iron bar tied to the side mirror. The smugglers were looking for a good spot to try and cross, then they told us, a site where the US Border Patrol would be too far away to catch them. About 10 minutes drive, the sedan stops along a stretch of highway. One of the smugglers got out of the car with two migrants, one of whom grabbed a makeshift ladder, the border wall about 500 meters away. A quick dash off the road and the trio entered the sandy desert that was the hallmark of this arid landscape. The group of people forward, dragging the metal ladder, behind the exhausted gasp of migrants is the sound of the smuggler’s occasional instruction: “Get lower!” He screamed at one point when a Border Patrol truck drove across the border. Halfway through the wall, the group took a break, and we only had about 30 seconds to talk to the migrants. They are Ecuadorian, one man and woman, 18 and 20 years old, with nothing but clothes on their backs and two bottles of water. They have paid smugglers thousands of dollars to get there, and they hope to find work in South Texas. But the only way they could do it was to get past the wall. After gazing intently at a small bush, looking for any signs of law enforcement, the smuggler signaled it was time to push the final wall. Crouching in a low run, they made the final distance in about a minute. The 18-year-old then lifts the ladder and the smuggler helps him hook one end to the end of the fence, the ladder curves over the wall like a candy. The young man threw both bottles of water over the fence and immediately took the ladder, shaking hands quickly until it reached the top of the 15-20 feet high wall. He quickly lowered himself to the other side, dropped into what looked like an unused construction site, and then it was the young woman’s turn. Just a little slower, she did the same thing. They both passed through the desert on the other side and the traffickers were back on the highway. To the two migrants, there seems to be little plan on what to do next, confused and overwhelmed, both running towards an uncertain future. There is only a bit of desert on that side of the wall. Yes, they have made it to America, but far from the end of their journey, they obviously have a lot left to answer: Where are they going? What will they do? How will they make money? What if they are caught by immigration? These are questions that we cannot answer. For smugglers, those are immaterial queries – very simple in fact. They don’t know what happened to them on the other side and don’t really want to know. Their job is to get them over the wall and that’s it.