This model, introduced by El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele in March 2022, raised eyebrows internationally due to its suspension of certain civil liberties and mass incarcerations.

President Nayib Bukele has expanded his efforts to remake his country to students’ appearance as part of bringing discipline ...

El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele's anti-gang campaign has yielded tangible results—homicide rates have dropped ...

El Salvador has new guidance for the public school system. Karla Trigueros, the newly appointed minister of education, ...

By bnl editorial staff Costa Rica's decision to construct a mega-prison modelled on El Salvador's controversial Cecot ...

“Nobody can deny it.” The president had reasons to feel good. Formerly one of the world’s most violent countries, El Salvador went 24 straight days without a single murder in December.

Bukele’s controversial crackdown on El Salvador’s gangs has won him tremendous support. He’s jailed almost 70,000 people under a state of exception that has lasted for the last year and a half.

The Securities and Exchange Commission met with officials from El Salvador’s National Commission on Digital Assets on Tuesday to collaborate on cryptocurrency regulation across borders. As part ...

In one of the regions of El Salvador most battered in a bloody war funded by American dollars, four Catholic women from the U.S. were hailed as examples of solidarity, of Christian faith and ...