Bukele even tweeted that his country’s homicide rate was the lowest in all the Americas. ... Some inmates are sent to rebuild homes while others smash tombstones commemorating underworld leaders.

The Trump administration has been coordinating with Bukele on deportation flights, sending hundreds, including alleged Tren de Aragua gang members, to El Salvador's notorious Terrorism Confinement ...

Earlier this year, El Faro dropped another bombshell. One gang leader told the outlet, on video, that his criminal group had struck a deal with Bukele’s party to help him win his election as ...

Bukele’s close relationship with Trump has produced short-term financial perks. Shortly after Trump won reelection, El Salvador struck a $1.4 billion loan deal with the IMF without fully ...

El Salvador's Nayib Bukele is a hero of the American right and portrays himself as a hip, innovative disrupter-in-chief willing to break norms to save his country. Critics say he's just an old ...

President Donald Trump on Monday doubled down on his idea of sending U.S. citizens to foreign prisons, telling El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele he wanted to send "homegrown criminals" to his ...

El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele said "of course I'm not going to do it" about returning Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Maryland man deported to an El Salvadoran prison.

Move over Kim Jong Un, Vladimir Putin and Viktor Orban. Donald Trump’s latest strongman bromance is with “President B.” Now, Bukele is actively helping Trump sidestep court orders in the ...

El Salvador President Nayib Bukele is a global right-wing icon. WSJ explains how he became an influential figure in the MAGA movement with close ties to many of President Trump’s allies.

If Bukele agreed to return Garcia, the U.S. would provide a plane for his transfer, Bondi added. A federal judge and a federal appeals court has found that there is little evidence that Abrego ...

President Nayib Bukele said he would free the Venezuelans that the Trump administration deported to El Salvador if Venezuela released the same number of prisoners, including members of the opposition.

Bukele even tweeted that his country’s homicide rate was the lowest in all the Americas. ... Some inmates are sent to rebuild homes while others smash tombstones commemorating underworld leaders.