President Nayib Bukele’s crackdown on gangs has brought peace to El Salvador, but the price, some Salvadorans say, has been the loss of civil liberties. “We used to be afraid of the gangs,” says one ...
El Salvador’s Cecot mega-prison was notorious long before the Trump administration’s recent decision to deport hundreds of alleged Venezuelan gang members there. The Center for Terrorism Confinement, ...
For decades, life choices were bleak for many in El Salvador: Leave or die. Dubbed the “murder capital of the world,” there was an average of a homicide an hour in early 2016, in this country of just ...
SAN SALVADOR, Feb 4 (Reuters) - President Nayib Bukele on Sunday secured a thumping victory in El Salvador's elections after voters cast aside concerns about erosion of democracy to reward him for a ...
The people of El Salvador lived in fear of gangs for decades. Then President Nayib Bukele decided enough was enough. What happened next was a miracle, and all it took was la mano dura: an iron fist.