El Salvador Pays Back $800M Maturing Bond, President Nayib Bukele Says

“In the past year, almost every legacy international news outlet said that because of our ‘ Bitcoin ( $78,526.00 ) bet,’ El Salvador was going to default on its debt by January 2023 (since we had an 800 million dollar bond maturing today),” Bukele said. “Literally hundreds of articles,” he added, before posting a number of them.