El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele is intensifying his crackdown on dissent, a move observers suggest has been emboldened ...

Mr. Bukele’s unparalleled rise comes down to a single factor ... they are more likely to replicate only the dark side of El Salvador’s model, and not its achievements. Governments could ...

President Nayib Bukele of El Salvador has been granted a special license allowing him to temporarily step down from his presidential role to pursue a second term in the country’s upcoming elections on ...

They were stripped down to their ... were forced to run with their hands behind their back or neck. Altogether, there were 2,000 convicts who were transferred last week to El Salvador’s new ...

Bukele made a name for himself by jailing tens of thousands of alleged gang members, which has helped to bring down the homicide ... praise on the 43-year-old El Salvador leader.

El Salvador’s Bitcoin holdings soared with Donald Trump’s election victory. The President-elect’s migration stance may be more problematic for his ally Bukele’s economic plans. The gang ...

According to InsightCrime.org, a think tank specializing in crime in the Americas, El Salvador’s murder rate tumbled in 2022 to only 495 cases, down from ... seen forced to run in lines while ...

On the incentive side, Trump has ... the U.S. is giving Bukele to run the notorious prison known as CECOT, where most of the deportees the U.S. has handed to El Salvador have been placed indefinitely.

San Salvador, El Salvador — U.S. Secretary of State Marco ... in U.S. foreign assistance and stop-work orders that have shut down U.S.-funded programs targeting illegal migration and crime ...

SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador — U.S. Secretary of State Marco ... in U.S. foreign assistance and stop-work orders that have shut down U.S.-funded programs targeting illegal migration and crime ...

One of the architects of El Salvador's state-run Chivo crypto wallet has claimed the government should shut the app down. In an interview with the Spanish-language media outlet Criptonoticias ...

The residents of El Zonte, once heavily weighed down ... side of life.” I wasn’t able to see Peterson while in El Zonte, but I met up with him a couple of days later at Plan B, in San Salvador.