Nayib Bukele

El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele's anti-gang campaign has yielded tangible results—homicide rates have dropped dramatically—but it has come at a steep cost.

The changes eliminate a long-standing ban on consecutive presidential terms and remove the second round of elections, consolidating Bukele's grip on power.

Francisco Javier Casique, one of 252 Venezuelans quietly deported to the mega prison, told Newsweek about their four-month detention in El Salvador.

Some of the Venezuelans detained in El Salvador's notorious Cecot prison have alleged physical assault, sexual abuse and torture.

Francisco Javier García Cacique was among more than 200 migrants deported to El Salvador's Terrorism Confinement Center (CECOT) on two flights in March.

The senator said the Trump administration's deportation of Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia was a "screw up."

Representative Tom Emmer avoided answering a question about the possibility of Trump deporting U.S. citizens with criminal records to El Salvador.

Abrego Garcia's deportation has become a flashpoint as President Donald Trump follows through on campaign promises of mass deportations.

President Donald Trump wants to send U.S. citizens to rot in a brutal Salvadoran mega-prison. We can't let that happen.

A federal judge will have Trump officials to testify under oath about whether they complied with her earlier order.

Trump officials say a Supreme Court order regarding the return of a man improperly deported to El Salvador has been satisfied.

Trump has made it appear that retrieving a man being held at his own personal request is so diplomatically complex that it would have stumped both Henry Kissinger and Bill Nye the Science Guy.

Abrego Garcia was one of over 200 immigrants deported by the Trump administration to the El Salvador mega prison known as CECOT.

Mirelys Casique recognized her son, Francisco, in a video released by El Salvador President Bukele showing Venezuelan deportees arriving from the U.S. without any hearing or due process.

While the U.S. criminal justice system is far from perfect, addressing its shortcomings requires reform, not abdication of responsibility.

Noboa's populist bravado, aggressive security policies and alignment with Trumpian politics has positioned him as a formidable figure.

Prisoners spend 23.5 hours a day locked in their cells, with a brief, daily 30-minute window for exercise or religious activities in a central hallway.

As the U.S. grapples with authoritarianism at home, President Joe Biden has no business supporting a Trump-admiring autocrat in El Salvador on the eve of their elections.

The point of Bukele's crackdown is clear: Join a gang, go to prison.

Nayib Bukele led the push to El Salvador becoming the first county in the world to make Bitcoin legal tender.

Having made Bitcoin legal tender in September 2021, the country has made several big currency purchases, frequently buying at prices well in excess of $40,000.

"Our investigations were what led to the government dissolving the anti-corruption body," prosecutor German Arriaza said.

President Nayib Bukele announced on Twitter that his country had missed the bottom price by seven minutes.

"Why am I going to stay here if we don't have a counterpart at this time?" diplomat Jean Manes said in an interview on Monday.

El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele said the move would save Salvadorians millions in commissions on the money they send back home.

Nayib Bukele, president of El Salvador, declined to meet with visiting U.S. diplomat Ricardo Zuniga over a perceived pattern of slights from Democrats and the Biden administration, two aides told the Associated Press.

Nayib Bukele said that "someday we will finish building a country where migration is an option and not an obligation."

A segment on "Fox & Friends" on Sunday had "Trump Cuts U.S. Aid to 3 Mexican Countries" displayed in the chyron at the bottom of the screen, despite the fact that Mexico is one country.