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The shadowy rise of Trump's favorite ally: El Salvador's Nayib Bukele - USA TODAY
The shadowy rise of Donald Trump's favorite president: Nayib Bukele Bukele rose to near-total control of El Salvador on a tide of support from the very gang he’s credited with defeating ...
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El Salvador's Bukele, meeting with Trump, says he won't return migrant wrongfully deported - ABC News
El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele, sitting next to President Donald Trump in the Oval Office, said on Monday he will not return Kilmar Abrego García, a migrant from Maryland who was wrongfully ...
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Why El Salvador's 'mega' prisons have made the world safer - New York Post
This week’s White House meeting between President Trump and El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele offered a crucial opportunity. It should have marked an era of renewed US engagement with our ...
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Trump team confirms wrongly deported man still alive as prez says El Salvador's leader will determine future of prisoners - New York Post
The Maryland man erroneously deported to a notoriously brutal prison in El Salvador last month in defiance of a court order is still alive, the Trump administration confirmed Saturday.
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El Salvador's president says he won't return mistakenly deported man to U.S. - NBC News
El Salvador President Nayib Bukele told reporters during a meeting with President Donald Trump on Monday that he wouldn't return a man the Justice Department said it had mistakenly deported to his ...
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What El Salvador’s Bukele, a hero for the American right, isn’t showing the world - Los Angeles Times
El Salvador's Nayib Bukele is a hero of the American right and portrays himself as a hip, innovative disrupter-in-chief willing to break norms to save his country. Critics say he's just an old ...
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Bukele’s security miracle hasn’t made El Salvador prosper - Dallas News
Don’t expect El Salvador to become an economic success story; the power and stardom that Bukele enjoys ensure that his country will remain poor, with Bukele in the limelight. Daniel Batlle is an ...
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El Salvador wants America’s prisoners. And its tourists.
El Salvador suffered through a brutal civil war through the 1980s and ’90s, and severe gang violence into the 2000s. By 2015, the country was the world’s murder capital.
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El Salvador says it shares gang intel with the US - CNN
El Salvador says it shares intelligence with the United States about gang members wanted by the Central American nation and provides “complete records” on them before formally requesting their ...
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5 things to know about El Salvador | Cognoscenti - WBUR
El Salvador has been in the headlines for weeks, primarily because of an agreement its president struck with the Trump administration to accept and detain deported migrants. But the country’s ...
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El Salvador's Bukele proposes prisoner swap with Maduro for Venezuelans deported from the U.S. - NBC News
El Salvador has come under sharp international scrutiny for accepting Venezuelans and Salvadorans deported by the Trump administration, which accused them of being gang members with little evidence.