More than 3,000 minors, many with ‘no apparent connection to gangs’, have been arbitrarily arrested, rights group says.
After February landslide win, Bukele set to govern for another five years with near-total control of state institutions.
Rights group says President Nayib Bukele has reduced gang violence by replacing it with state violence.
The president who calls himself the ‘world’s coolest dictator’ says he just scored the largest election win in history.
With soaring approval ratings and virtually no competition, the president had been expected to secure a second term.
In the port town of Puerto el Triunfo, violence has dwindled, but fear has not amid President Bukele’s gang crackdown.
President Nayib Bukele governs with an ‘iron fist’, but he’s popular and poised to win a second term in Sunday’s polls.
President Nayib Bukele seeks to consolidate his power in Sunday’s vote, despite outcry over human rights violations.
Gaza isn’t the first victim of Israeli-inflicted mass devastation. But it’s the first to see it on this shocking scale.
A harsh crackdown on gangs has brought Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele popularity, but experts say the cost is steep.
President Nayib Bukele said 7,000 soldiers and 1,000 police officers deployed to Cabanas to hunt down gang members.
El Salvador’s justice minister says up to 900 alleged gang members could be prosecuted at once under the new law.
A crackdown on gangs in El Salvador drops the murder rate in the country by more than 50 percent, but at what price?
Mauricio Funes, who currently lives in Nicaragua, denies the charges and says 2012 truce was brokered by the church.
