Bukele proposes conditional release for half of El Salvador's gang prisoners — a pivot after 4 years of record incarceration and documented rights abuses.

Peru's President Fujimori toured El Salvador's CECOT megaprison and pledged new jails, as rights groups warn the Bukele model ...

Peruvian President Fujimori arrived in El Salvador for a four-day visit focused on the CECOT prison, President Nayib Bukele's ...

SAN SALVADOR (AP) — Chile's far-right President-elect José Antonio Kast visited El Salvador's mega-prison for accused gang members on Friday ahead of a meeting with President Nayib Bukele to discuss ...

By IntelliNews Latam desk Costa Rica, the country that abolished its army in 1948 and long sold itself as Central America’s peaceful outlier, is about to open a prison built to El Salvador’s design.

The Salvadoran president’s announcement of a plan to release thousands of prisoners who were jailed during the state of ...

Peru's President Keiko Fujimori visits Bukele's El Salvador on 29 and 30 October 2026 while her government drafts a ...

SAN JOSE, Oct 27 (Reuters) - Costa Rica has locked up the first 123 inmates in a new mega-prison, built with the help of the Salvadoran government in the outskirts of capital San José, the country's ...

Donald Trump's renewed praise of El Salvador's CECOT prison has revived scrutiny of whether convicted US citizens could be ...

The Trump administration’s deal to send large numbers of people to prisons in El Salvador has thrust its president, Nayib Bukele, into the international spotlight. Bukele has been praised, especially ...

President Donald Trump welcomed El Salvador’s president and self-proclaimed “world’s coolest dictator,” Nayib Bukele to the White House on Monday amid a backdrop of controversy and court battles over ...