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El Salvador President Nayib Bukele nominated for re-election despite constitutional questions

President Nayib Bukele of El Salvador has been nominated by his New Ideas party to run for reelection in next year’s contest

The Independent UK · Jul 10, 2023

Amid criticism over his war on gangs, El Salvador's President Bukele turns to sports

The 2023 Central American and Caribbean Games have offered El Salvador President Bukele an opportunity

The Independent UK · Jul 7, 2023

The Guardian view on El Salvador’s crime crackdown: a short-term, high cost fix

Editorial: President Nayib Bukele’s hardline campaign against gangs has won admirers at home and abroad. Look closer and its flaws are glaring

The Guardian - UK · Jul 2, 2023

Pastors find a role ministering to young men swept up in El Salvador's crackdown on gangs

Over the past 15 months, El Salvador’s security forces have jailed tens of thousands of people in a massive crackdown on the country’s notorious gangs

The Independent UK · Jun 16, 2023

Guatemala's presidential hopefuls channel heavy-handed tactics of El Salvador's leader

Candidates to be Guatemala’s next president are pushing a neighbor’s controversial success into the race

The Independent UK · Jun 5, 2023

El Salvador president pledges white-collar prison in 'war' on corruption

El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele on Thursday announced a bill to slim down the country's political system as he launched a "war against corruption" and pledged to build a prison to hold white-collar criminals.

Reuters · Jun 2, 2023

Inside the brutal El Salvador jail that's packed with 67,000 prisoners where 153 died

Four woman were among the 153 convicts to have died while in El Salvadorean state custody since officials began locking thousands of members of its powerful street gangs in mega jails across the Central American country

Daily Mirror · May 31, 2023

Report: At least 153 people arrested under special powers have died in Salvadoran prisons

At least 153 people jailed since El Salvador instituted emergency powers in March 2022 to confront the country’s powerful street gangs have died in state custody

The Independent UK · May 30, 2023

At least 153 died in custody in El Salvador’s gang crackdown – report

Human rights group’s 107-page report details human cost of President Nayib Bukele’s controversial ‘war on gangs’

The Guardian - US · May 29, 2023

At least 12 people dead after crowd crush at football stadium in El Salvador

At least 12 people have died and more than 100 were injured in a crush at the Estadio Cuscatlán in San Salvador, the nation’s capital

The Guardian - UK · May 21, 2023