Bukele challenged Hillary Clinton’s allegations of torture at El Salvador’s CECOT prison, offering to release inmates if other countries accept them.

El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele, who came to power in 2019 and is now serving a second term which critics have called ...

El Salvador President Nayib Bukele gave a seven-word response Saturday to a lengthy statement by a Democratic U.S. senator ...

Just three years ago, El Salvador was labeled the “murder capital of the world,” with the highest homicide rate per capita of ...

The Twitter/X bio of El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele, as of December 2025, reads “Philosopher King.” In the past, it ...

Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele speaks during a State of the Union address in June 2023. (Camilo Freedman / For The Times) Victor Barahona was grateful when soldiers started rounding up gang members ...

A young artist teaches children how to paint a mural in a house within the "La Campanera" neighborhood in San Salvador, El Salvador. The "La Campanera" neighborhood was for many years a commune for ...

El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele, currently in his second term, has expressed interest in extending his presidency by ...

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 ...

SAN SALVADOR — Love him or hate him, all eyes are on Nayib Bukele. To many, El Salvador’s president is a national hero who took on the country's violent gangs with an unrelenting hand. To others, the ...

The cryptocurrency crisis, worsened by the dramatic collapse of fast-growing crypto exchange FTX in mid-November, has raised questions about the future of these digital currencies. Bitcoin, the ...

The last time I was in El Salvador, nearly a decade ago, the capital was gripped by the violence of gangs who terrified people — dictating where they could shop, work, go to school or even cross a ...