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News Articles: Nayib Bukele

Eleonora Alfaro (L), mother of lawyer Ruth Lopez of the human rights group Cristosal, speaks next to Noah Bullock (C), executive director of Cristosal, and Louis Benavides (R), partner of Lopez, during a press conference in El Salvador.

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  • Latin America

El Salvador arrests prominent human rights lawyer

Human rights groups have called for the immediate release of Ruth López, whose whereabouts are unknown since her arrest by police in El Salvador late Sunday.

May 20, 2025
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By:
  • Eyder Peralta
El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele listens during a meeting with President Donald Trump in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington on Monday.

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  • Latin America

El Salvador president orders arrest of bus company heads for defying free ride policy

Bukele had announced that all bus fares for a week would be completely free due to construction the government was carrying out on one of the main highways running through San Salvador.

May 06, 2025
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By:
  • The Associated Press
U.S. President Donald Trump met with President Nayib Bukele of El Salvador in the Oval Office of the White House April 14, 2025 in Washington, DC. Trump and Bukele are exploring a proposal to send American citizens to be held in Salvadorean prisons, a move critics describe as dangerous and unconstitutional.

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  • National

'Homegrowns are next': Trump hopes to deport and jail U.S. citizens abroad

Trump hopes to deport and imprison U.S. citizens abroad. Critics say the concept is unconstitutional and dangerous.

April 16, 2025
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By:
  • Brian Mann
President Trump meets with President Nayib Bukele of El Salvador in the Oval Office on April 14, 2025.

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  • Politics

El Salvador's Bukele says 'preposterous' to suggest he return Abrego Garcia to U.S.

El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele and several top Trump administration officials dismissed questions about the fate of a Maryland man wrongfully deported to El Salvador.

April 14, 2025
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By:
  • Franco Ordoñez and
  • Danielle Kurtzleben
US President Donald Trump and President Nayib Bukele of El Salvador hold a meeting in New York, on September 25, 2019, on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly.

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  • World

The 'world's coolest dictator' heads to the White House

El Salvador's President Bukele heads to the White House to discuss further cooperation with the U.S., including the continued use of El Salvador's supermax prison for deported migrants.

April 14, 2025
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By:
  • Alfie Pannell
A 16-year-old boy who was captured and claimed to have been beaten by members of El Salvador's naval force in November 2022 in Usulután, a small town in eastern El Salvador.

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  • Latin America

Portraits from El Salvador's nearly 2-year, sprawling crackdown on gang suspects

Salvadoran photographer Carlos Barrera takes a look at the nearly two years of human rights violations allegedly committed by the government of El Salvador during the country's state of emergency.

February 06, 2024
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By:
  • Carlos Barrera
Banner with the face of President Nayib Bukele on the roof of the pupusas restaurant of Arnulfo Crisostomo Mazariego in San Salvador on Jan. 29.

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  • Latin America

Why the 'world's coolest dictator' is on course for a landslide win in El Salvador

El Salvador's Nayib Bukele has won plaudits both at home and abroad for his indiscriminate security crackdown that has seen more than 1% of the country's population put in prison.

February 02, 2024
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By:
  • Emily Green

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