After drubbing El Salvador’s gangs during a more than three-year state of emergency, President Nayib Bukele turned this month ...

Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele denied Kilmar Ábrego García’s allegations that he was beaten and tortured after being mistakenly deported to an El Salvador prison. In March, Ábrego García was ...

Bitcoin got a major boost when President Trump was reelected in 2024 and said days later that he intends to nominate ...

Dozens of journalists and NGO members have been forced to leave El Salvador in recent months, fearing ongoing repression by ...

President Nayib Bukele’s crackdown on gangs has brought peace to El Salvador, but the price, some Salvadorans say, has been the loss of civil liberties. “We used to be afraid of the gangs,” says one ...

Nayib Bukele’s autocratic tendencies were already clear when he ran for a second term as El Salvador’s president in 2024. He had extended a “temporary” state of emergency for two years, and used it to ...

A previously undisclosed report alleges Salvadoran President Bukele asked Trump’s ambassador to dismiss an embassy contractor helping U.S. agents investigate top aides.

A Donald Trump aide recently hinted at the president's plan to obtain "limitless power," according to a former prosecutor this weekend. Ex-federal prosecutor Joyce Vance on Saturday called "When they ...

WASHINGTON − Salvadoran leader Nayib Bukele owes his support in Washington to a controversial agreement to hold hundreds of Venezuelans deported from the United States in a notorious prison – and to a ...

El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele was re-elected for a second term in a landslide win. Bukele has overseen a vast and brutal crackdown on gangs, transforming the nation from one of the deadliest to ...