According to regional reports, El Salvador’s current leadership is in the midst of developing a stablecoin backed by the U.S. dollar. Meanwhile, others believe the stablecoin idea was scrapped now that Nayib Bukele’s government chose to leverage bitcoin.
Some Say the Colón-Dollar Is Being Developed, Others Claim the Salvadoran Stablecoin Idea Was Scrapped
There’s lots of debate going on concerning a report published by the regional news outlet El Faro. The investigation claims the Salvadoran president Nayib Bukele and his regime plans to issue a stablecoin. The El Faro report references videos that show the president’s brothers discussing the stablecoin dubbed “Colón-Dollar.”
The report from El Faro does note a spokesperson from the Bukele regime says the stablecoin plans were scrapped, but “sources familiar” with the matter told El Faro they disagree. This is because it has been said that meetings about the Colón-Dollar are still continuing and happened after Nayib Bukele passed the new bitcoin tender law.
“El Faro has a copy of several videos that add up to more than two hours of virtual meetings, in which different negotiations appear with delegates from at least five technology companies and where the Bukele brothers are protagonists,” the reporters Sergio Arauz , Nelson Rauda and Roman Gressier wrote.
“El Faro also obtained documents in which the action plan proposed by foreign companies to leverage the implementation of a new financial system and the new currency is registered,” the report adds.
