El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele, sitting next to President Donald Trump in the Oval Office, said on Monday he will not return Kilmar Abrego García, a migrant from Maryland who was wrongfully ...

The agreement with Nayib Bukele, the president of El Salvador, is undermining a long-running federal investigation into the gang, according to people familiar with the inquiry. By The New York ...

El Salvador suffered through a brutal civil war through the 1980s and ’90s, and severe gang violence into the 2000s. By 2015, the country was the world’s murder capital.

El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele said "of course I'm not going to do it" about returning Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Maryland man deported to an El Salvadoran prison.

Yet El Salvador has defied expectations—and on February 26th the IMF’s board approved a $1.4bn loan to be disbursed over 40 months. In order to obtain the money, El Salvador has made the usual ...

For decades, life choices in El Salvador were either leave or die. People are returning after a crackdown on crime, but it’s come at a cost.

Families of Venezuelan deportees held in El Salvador’s infamous Cecot prison can petition the Salvadoran government for their release – but the fruitfulness of that process is an open question ...

(Washington, DC) – Authorities in El Salvador have arrested the prominent human rights lawyer Ruth Eleonora López, Human Rights Watch said today. On May 18, 2025, at 11 p.m., Salvadoran police ...

This week’s White House meeting between President Trump and El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele offered a crucial opportunity. It should have marked an era of renewed US engagement with our ...

El Salvador has now been under the 30-day measure for three years. The country has imprisoned more than 100,000 people detained in facilities designed to hold 70,000.