The small Central American nation of El Salvador has of late assumed an outsize role in the western hemisphere. With a vengeful and reckless Donald Trump back at the imperial helm, Nayib Bukele, an ...

Inside El Salvador’s transformation toward sovereignty and strength. A week of conferences, grassroots builders, and a dinner with President Bukele revealed a nation rewriting its future. I spent the ...

Mr. Rauda Zablah is an editor for El Faro. He wrote from San Salvador, El Salvador. In May 2020, during the height of Covid, El Salvador was under a military-enforced lockdown. At a news conference, I ...

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 ...

The US State Department has voiced rare support for El Salvador’s decision to abolish presidential term limits, paving the way for President Nayib Bukele to seek indefinite reelection. Critics argue ...

SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador — The party of El Salvador President Nayib Bukele approved constitutional changes in the country's National Assembly on Thursday that will allow indefinite presidential ...

The claims appears to contradict what U.S. officials have been saying. Over 200 migrants who were sent to El Salvador's CECOT mega-prison under accusations that they were members of a violent criminal ...

Once known as one of the most dangerous detention centers in the murder capital of the world, El Salvador’s sprawling La Esperanza prison now sits at the center of an international debate over crime, ...

The Venezuelan nationals the US government sent to El Salvador in March and April were tortured and subjected to other abuses, including sexual violence. The cases of torture and ill-treatment of ...

El Salvador President Nayib Bukele told reporters during a meeting with President Donald Trump on Monday that he wouldn't return a man the Justice Department said it had mistakenly deported to his ...