What was behind the controversial deal to imprison U.S. deportees at the notorious Salvadoran prison known as CECOT? FRONTLINE and El Faro investigate in ‘The Deal: Trump, Bukele & the Gangs of El ...
When the Trump administration and Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele reached an agreement to imprison U.S. deportees at CECOT, what did Bukele stand to gain? A new documentary from FRONTLINE and El ...
The influential digital newspaper El Faro denounced on Thursday that the government of Nayib Bukele froze assets belonging to its partners in retaliation for its reports on alleged dealings between ...
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 ...
SAN SALVADOR — El Salvador’s Congress approved a constitutional amendment pushed forward by President Nayib Bukele on Tuesday to permit life sentences in a country that has imprisoned more than 1% of ...
Aug 2 (Reuters) - There was no shortage of warning signs that El Salvador President Nayib Bukele would attempt to stay in power indefinitely, his critics say. There was the time Bukele stormed the ...
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Nayib Bukele, El Salvador’s authoritarian president, brands himself the “world’s coolest dictator.” But he oversees an increasingly dismal economy. He seems to think that a strong relationship with ...