El Salvador’s strongman President Nayib Bukele announced his country has offered the U.S. the opportunity to “outsource part ...

Current laws “would categorically preclude most U.S. citizens and residents from serving their sentence in El Salvador,” a ...

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio will discuss the possibility of deporting suspected Tren de Aragua gang members to El ...

El Salvador continues to expand its national Bitcoin holdings as President Nayib Bukele predicts an “exponential” surge in ...

Peter Gietl of Blaze Media and Salvadoran journalist Ricardo Avelar debate the resolution, "President Nayib Bukele's crime-fighting policies in El Salvador provide a model for reducing violence in ...

“Welcome home,” crowed President Nayib Bukele on X, a social network. On January 13th Tether, the world’s leading stablecoin firm, announced that it had chosen El Salvador as the location of ...

New figures from the Salvadoran government of President Nayib Bukele show only 114 murders in 2024. In the context of El Salvador’s recent history, 114 is astonishingly low. The trend line is clear.

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Bukele built the world's largest prison to house the tens of thousands jailed as part of his crackdown on organised crime.

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio will discuss the possibility of deporting suspected Tren de Aragua gang members to El Salvador in an upcoming meeting with Salvadorean president Nayib Bukele ...