In the past five years, Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele has become Latin America’s most celebrated authoritarian. He has won plaudits—including from U.S. President Donald Trump—for reducing gang ...

President Nayib Bukele in El Salvador is celebrating 1,000 days without homicides since he took power in 2019. But what does that mean exactly, and are there reasons to doubt the numbers in a country ...

El Salvador President Nayib Bukele called attention to prediction markets amid increasing bets that the country’s Bitcoin holdings will hit $1 billion by year-end. Bukele took to X on Wednesday to ...

Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player... President Nayib Bukele of El Salvador is one of the most popular politicians in history, and for good reason. During his presidency, ...

SAN SALVADOR, Aug 14 (Reuters) - El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele on Thursday swore in Karla Trigueros, a captain with the Central American nation's armed forces, as education minister. "If we ...

For years, opposition leaders, human rights advocates, and independent civil society groups in El Salvador have warned the world about President Nayib Bukele’s authoritarian tendencies. Last week, ...

After El Salvador's congress changed the Constitution last week to eliminate presidential term limits, the Trump administration this week is insisting that authoritarian President Nayib Bukele is not ...

Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele rejected on Sunday the notion that the approval of indefinite presidential re-election in El Salvador marks “the end of democracy,” arguing that the criticism stems ...

Aug 2 (Reuters) - There was no shortage of warning signs that El Salvador President Nayib Bukele would attempt to stay in power indefinitely, his critics say. There was the time Bukele stormed the ...

To those familiar with the autocrat’s playbook, Nayib Bukele’s latest move was not surprising. On July 31st El Salvador’s legislative assembly, dominated by his New Ideas party, voted to remove ...

El Salvador's president and Donald Trump's closest ally in Latin America, Nayib Bukele, has secured a sweeping political victory after lawmakers approved a controversial constitutional change allowing ...