Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... COMMENTARY If President Trump hopes to replicate Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele's authoritarian conquest of the judicary, tiny El Salvador may have a ...
The Twitter/X bio of El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele, as of December 2025, reads “Philosopher King.” In the past, it ...
San Salvador, El Salvador — U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said late Monday that El Salvador's president has offered to accept and incarcerate deportees from the U.S. of any nationality, ...
SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador — Authorities in El Salvador have opened one of Latin America’s largest prisons, more than doubling the country’s incarceration capacity, as a government crackdown on ...
Marvin Medrano, ‘Sayco’, has “MS” for Mara Salvatrucha tattooed on his torso… forever. He’s serving 100 years in the mega-prison for gang members built two years ago in El Salvador by Nayib Bukele’s ...
Speaking at Mass two days before Christmas, Archbishop José Luis Escobar Alas of San Salvador turned to a sensitive subject: politics. The archbishop did not mention any politicians by name—much less ...
Polling as the most popular leader in Latin America — possibly even the world — El Salvador’s Nayib Bukele has inspired calls for hard-handed tactics across a region tired of violence and losing faith ...
Blog posts represent the views of CFR fellows and staff and not those of CFR, which takes no institutional positions. El Salvador’s recent $1.4 billion bailout by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) ...
We estimate the nation’s just-issued 30-year bond is still priced 200 basis points cheap compared to its fair value, with projected returns exceeding 33% over the next year should spreads narrow to ...