The Twitter/X bio of El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele, as of December 2025, reads “Philosopher King.” In the past, it ...

When President Nayib Bukele announced a sweeping “state of exception” in El Salvador in March 2022, he promised an end to the country’s long-standing nightmare: the grip of brutal street gangs like MS ...

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They got this beast’s number. A convicted killer on El Salvador’s list of most-wanted gang members has been arrested while living illegally in the US, according to the feds — with his mugshot showing ...

The Trump administration designated the Barrio 18 gang as a foreign terrorist organization on Tuesday, joining other Latin American criminal groups receiving the designation in recent months. Barrio ...

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