Nayib Bukele

Military operations in the Caribbean have been accompanied by a strategy of pressure through intimidating messages

New legislative reforms join other tough measures against any suspected gang member approved during over three years of the emergency regime in El Salvador

The government has instigated a tightening of rules of conduct as part of the war against gangs

The Venezuelan stylist, one of the 252 men deported by the United States to a third nation for the first time, is trying to rebuild his life after four months of detention

Recently, the provocateur has gone from being a marginal figure of the so-called ‘Dark Enlightenment’ to placing himself at the center of the American ideological war, cast as a kind of oracle to the MAGA universe

The annual report criticizes Germany for its laws against far-right speech and refrains from censuring Israel’s actions in Gaza

Rwanda is the latest nation to accept citizens of other nationalities amid allegations of repression and torture at Trump’s chosen destinations

The State Department supports the measure taken by El Salvador’s Legislative Assembly, loyal to the president, which allows Washington’s main ally in Central America to remain in power

The constitutional reform that allows for indefinite re-election in El Salvador is just the president’s most recent move to cling to office

The reform, endorsed by a Legislative Assembly loyal to the president, modifies the foundations of El Salvador’s electoral rules

The artist recounts the beatings he endured, some for daring to sing, during the four months he was imprisoned in El Salvador’s Cecot

Migrants deported from the US to El Salvador and now returned to Venezuela tell EL PAÍS about four months of continuous punishment and total uncertainty about their fate

Dahud Hanid Ortiz landed Friday in Texas from Caracas, where he was sentenced to 30 years for a crime committed in the Spanish capital in 2016

In response to UN inquiries, Salvadoran authorities denied past US claims and stated that they have only facilitated the use of their infrastructure

García Harfuch has presented a police and intelligence initiative targeting the criminal charges imposed on both large and small businesses

The UN warns that Bukele may be responsible for enforced disappearances of Venezuelans imprisoned in El Salvador. And in Costa Rica, the Supreme Court has ordered the release of individuals deported by the US

The Salvadoran national Jordin Melgar-Salmerón was sent to his home country in May despite a court ban

President Donald Trump has praised Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele as a crime fighter, but new reporting based on interviews and documents reveals how senior Salvadoran officials have impeded a U.S. investigation of the MS-13 gang

The delegation has gone to various judicial and government agencies without receiving a response, and plans to ask the Pope for help

The latest poll gives the Salvadoran president an 85% approval rating, and only 1.4% of respondents believe that the concentration of power in a single figure is a problem for the country

In his annual address to the nation to observe his six years in power, the Central American leader attacked human rights groups and the media

A report contradicts the government’s claim that it has only expelled undocumented immigrants

Ronald Johnson, a CIA veteran and former Green Beret, is bringing a tough new style that favors military action against the cartels

The president’s approval ratings remain high as he nears six years in power, but both his image and leadership have evolved significantly

The Salvadoran military repressed some 300 farming families during the mobilization, an unprecedented event since the end of the civil war

Nicolás Maduro celebrated the reunion of the minor and her family: ‘She is the daughter and granddaughter of all of us’

US officials did not tell the migrants they were being sent to Central America, where authorities refused to take them in. Three are now in Venezuela and five remain in detention in the United States