For decades, El Salvador was a country that people fled — escaping gang violence, poverty, natural disasters and civil wars.

In exchange for jailing more than 200 deportees, El Salvador’s president, Nayib Bukele, has become a favorite of the Trump ...

The president of El Salvador announced his country has accepted hundreds of Venezuelan gang members who were illegally living in the United States, as a U.S. judge moved to block deportations of ...

The biggest reason for this is a sharp drop in violence during Mr Bukele’s presidency. In 2015 El Salvador had the highest murder rate in the world, 106 per 100,000 people (see chart).

Kilmar Abrego Garcia said he experienced “psychological torture,” physical abuse and alarming conditions while housed in El ...

The smallest country in Central America geographically, El Salvador has the fourth largest economy in the region. With the global recession, real GDP contracted in 2009 and economic growth has ...

El Salvador has become the first country in the world to make the cryptocurrency Bitcoin legal tender. Advocates of the digital currency, including the country's president, Nayib Bukele, say the ...

Inside the growing cult of El Salvador’s Nayib Bukele, Latin America’s political star. ... “The aesthetics of Bukelismo are definitely taking the region by storm,” said Will Freeman, ...

U.S. President Donald Trump shakes hands with El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele during a meeting in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, D.C., April 14, 2025.

The region’s drought-prone Dry Corridor, in particular, is one of the most vulnerable regions in the world to the disasters resulting from a changing climate, and it blankets El Salvador.