The first US Peace Corps volunteers return to El Salvador since leaving in 2016 because of violence
The first U.S. Peace Corps volunteers returned to El Salvador since the American force left in 2016 because of violence in ...
News Analysis: Bukele claims he cleaned up El Salvador. But at what cost?
With a carefully orchestrated public profile, the president of El Salvador claims sky-high popularity after jailing gangs.
Bukele claims he cleaned up El Salvador. But at what cost?
With a carefully orchestrated public profile, the president of El Salvador claims sky-high popularity after jailing gangs.
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El Salvador’s Bukele Highlights Gang Crackdown Results at UN
The President of El Salvador, Nayib Bukele, defended the results of his anti-gang crusade at the UN, stating that it has restored peace to the country’s streets. “In the last five years, El Salvador ...
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'Legacy of Lies' recalls the horrors of 1980s El Salvador that linger today
Legacy of Lies: El Salvador 1981-84 — revisits one of the Cold War's bloodiest proxy conflicts, and the U.S.'s complicity in ...
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Families Seek Justice in El Salvador’s Controversial Anti-Gang War
Relatives of prisoners detained during the anti-gang “war” declared in 2022 in El Salvador by President Nayib Bukele, began a campaign on Tuesday to secure prison visits, where there are more than ...
Who is Nayib Bukele? The El Salvador President who Musk called 'an amazing leader'
Elon Musk recently lauded El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele as an amazing leader during an exchange on X. Bukele, who ...
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El Salvador's president warns of 'new dark era' for humanity in UN speech
El Salvador’s president said Tuesday that "the world has become divided, depressed, worried, hostile and hopeless" and "we ...
Mural artists in El Salvador paint over bullet holes to give a troubled neighbourhood hope
Civil war and gang violence left a Central American neighbourhood scarred. Painting huge murals on housing blocks heralds a ...
How El Salvador Became One of the Safest Nations in The West
El Salvador, once the world's most dangerous country, has undergone a remarkable transformation. In 2023, 88% of Salvadorians ...
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Critics denounce their government as a dictatorship. But these people say they’ve never felt so free
A decade or so ago gangs like MS-13 and Barrio 18 terrorized communities, extorting businesses and waging brutal turf wars over control of neighborhoods, and El Salvador was the most violent ...