Human rights organizations, politicians and experts have sharply criticized a law approved by El Salvador’s Congress this ...

Critics of Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele call his "arbitrary" arrest of human rights advocate Ruth López a deepening sign ...

President Nayib Bukele’s crackdown on gangs has brought peace to El Salvador, but the price, some Salvadorans say, has been the loss of civil liberties. “We used to be afraid of the gangs ...

Since 2022, Mr. Bukele has kept in place a state of emergency that allows authorities to carry out arrests at will, sidestepping due process. Image President Nayib Bukele at the White House in April.

SAN SALVADOR — Their news site had just exposed details of Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele’s alleged deals with the country’s gangs. Now the three journalists were faced with a choice they ...

But when Trump invited Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele to the White House in April, it was all smiles as they joked about mass incarceration. “Sometimes they say that we imprisoned thousands ...

Ruth Eleonora López was an outspoken critic of President Nayib Bukele. López’s supporters call the charges against her part of the Bukele government’s “systematic strategy of ...

At a news conference, I asked President Nayib Bukele a straightforward question about meeting with the business community about reopening the economy. Mr. Bukele bristled and criticized the ...

Authorities in El Salvador have arrested a prominent attorney critical of President Nayib Bukele, in a move criticized by rights groups who say it reflects an increasing trend of ...

“Warrants, if issued, would be the first here in decades to target journalists for their work, according to El Faro, ‘the most frontal state assault on press freedom in El Salvador since Bukele came ...

Police in El Salvador arrested a prominent human rights lawyer and critic of President Nayib Bukele who helps imprisoned Venezuelan migrants deported by the United States, prompting appeals on ...

SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador — El Salvador President Nayib Bukele said he's pushing forward a “foreign agents” bill that critics say would deal another blow to civil society and independent ...