Waiting For The End Of The World In El Salvador

Winter 2025

For bitcoin maximalists and dissidents of the New Right, this small, troubled Central American dictatorship has become an incubator for a reactionary end times ideology.

BY SAM VENIS

PHOTOGRAPHS BY SAM VENIS

PERCHED ON A HILL about halfway up El Boquerón Volcano in San Salvador, the Palestra House is an orange art deco mansion in the Spanish colonial style with three floors, six bedrooms, and a large infini...