As with Nicaragua a decade ago, there is a hidden explanation for El Salvador’s improved security situation under Bukele.

SAN SALVADOR, Sept 4 (Reuters) - El Salvador's attorney general on Friday said he plans to investigate allegations that the government of President Nayib Bukele is negotiating with members of a ...

Members of this shadow cabinet run Bukele’s campaigns and serve as liaisons with advisors, friends, contractors, and ...

SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) — El Salvador’s arrest of an anticorruption lawyer from a well-known human rights organization last month is the latest example of how special powers given to President ...

Authorities in El Salvador have arrested a prominent human rights defender amid growing concerns over the government’s repressive anti-crime tactics, suggesting policies once used to attack organized ...

El Salvador says it shares intelligence with the United States about gang members wanted by the Central American nation and provides “complete records” on them before formally requesting their ...

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 ...

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 allies in ...

A Maryland congressman failed in an attempt to meet with Kilmar Abrego Garcia over the Memorial Day weekend, making him the latest in a string of Democratic lawmakers to fly to El Salvador to advocate ...

FILE - El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele gives a press conference in San Salvador, El Salvador, Jan. 14, 2025. (AP Photo/Salvador Melendez, File) SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) — El Salvador’s ...

SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) — El Salvador’s arrest of an anticorruption lawyer from a well-known human rights organization last month is the latest example of how special powers given to President ...

Alejandro Henriquez, left, and Jose Angel Perez, second from right, speak with their lawyers prior to their first court hearing in Santa Tecla, El Salvador, Friday, May 30, 2025. (AP Photo/Salvador ...