The Twitter/X bio of El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele, as of December 2025, reads “Philosopher King.” In the past, it ...
El Salvador has increasingly turned to international policing mechanisms to extend its anti-gang campaign beyond its borders since President Nayib Bukele declared a state of emergency in March 2022, a ...
El Salvador's Legislative Assembly, which is dominated by President Nayib Bukele's ruling party, approved a reform which delayed the deadline for planned mass trials ...
A group of Salvadorans asks the Supreme Court in November to declare unconstitutional the decree that allows the state of emergency in El Salvador to end a measure that, they claim, has led to ...
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 ...
SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador — El Salvador’s Congress voted Friday to give government prosecutors two more years to hold the more than 80,000 people swept up under the state of emergency while they ...
Prisoners are pictured at El Salvador's notorious CECOT prison - Copyright AFP Tobias SCHWARZ Prisoners are pictured at El Salvador's notorious CECOT prison ...
Haitian gangs and individuals financing and arming them could soon find themselves labeled as “terrorists” and imprisoned in El Salvador’s notorious maximum-security prison, the same facility the ...
El Salvador announced prison sentences for hundreds of gang members on Sunday, with some of the convicted receiving terms of hundreds of years. In a post on X, the Attorney General's office said that ...