El Salvador offers 5,000 passports to skilled foreign workers

[brooklynite]

Source: CNN


CNN
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El Salvador is offering 5,000 “free passports” to highly skilled workers from abroad, President Nayib Bukele announced Saturday in his latest attempt to boost the country’s economy with foreign investment.

Scientists, engineers, doctors, artists, and philosophers will be granted “full citizen status” including voting rights, the president said in a statement posted to X.

El Salvador will also help their relocation by eliminating taxes and tariffs on “moving families and assets” such as equipment, software, and intellectual property.

Bukele wrote that the the group’s contributions would have a huge impact on the future of the Central American country.


Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/07/americas/el-salvador-bukele-passports-skilled-foreign-workers-intl/index.html

[Mr.Bill]

1. Not for a million dollars. n/t

[JoseBalow]

2. Get back to me after the election

[hueymahl]

6. I expect it to be a landslide re-election

[JoseBalow]

7. That would be helpful

Hopefully it's enough

[Backseat Driver]

3. File this under "Be careful what you wish for" President Bukele. n/t

[maxsolomon]

4. I imagine there's Venezuelans and Hondurans that would qualify.

Maybe it will work.

[hueymahl]

5. Some of what their president is doing is controversial

But on the whole, it seems like El Salvador is better off. I am concerned about the reports of human rights violations.

[NanaCat]

8. Not as long as they treat women like chattel

Their anti-abortion laws are a travesty.