Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele speaks during a State of the Union address in June 2023. (Camilo Freedman / For The Times) Victor Barahona was grateful when soldiers started rounding up gang members ...
Family members at a demonstration on May 31, 2024, show a photo of their relative who was detained during the state of emergency, in San Salvador, El Salvador. In February, President Nayib Bukele ...
On March 27, 2022, on the heels of a weekend marked by dozens of gang-related murders, El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele and his legislature plunged the country into a régimen de excepción - a ...
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,” says one ...