El Salvador’s La Esperanza prison, once controlled by gangs, has been transformed under President Nayib Bukele’s crackdown into a labor-driven model praised for reducing violence but criticized ...

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 ...

Since his arrival in office in June, Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele has stepped up the country's war on criminal gangs, an effort that is bearing fruit according to experts who point to a falling ...

In 2021, President Bukele initiated a sweeping crackdown on gangs and crime. In a matter of weeks, 87,000 people were ...

The Minister of Education ordered the dismissal of the director and deputy director of a public institute shown in a video shared by President Bukele. On Monday, El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele ...

Costa Rican President Rodrigo Chaves toured a sprawling mega-prison for alleged gang members on Friday in Tecoluca, El ...

SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) — After drubbing El Salvador’s gangs during a more than three-year state of emergency, President Nayib Bukele turned his attention this month to another persistent, but ...

SAN SALVADOR, Sept 5 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - One morning in early May, armed policemen turned up at Elizabeth's modest home in rural El Salvador and arrested her son. "They told him they were ...

El Salvador President Nayib Bukele offers to house deportees of any nationality from the U.S., including incarcerated American citizens, in the country’s maximum-security prison. El Salvador Made ...

His bold crackdown, backed by iron-fisted rhetoric and slick social media campaigns, won him global headlines and soaring domestic approval. Three years later, the country boasts one of the lowest ...