Colombian far-left President Gustavo Petro and Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele clashed on Wednesday after Petro, a former member of a Marxist terror guerrilla, called Bukele’s “mega prison” for alleged gang members a “concentration camp.”
El Salvador on Friday moved the first 2,000 inmates to the new Center for the Confinement of Terrorism (CECOT), a 40,000-bed “mega prison” larger than all 20 of the country’s existing prisons combined. Over 64,000 suspects have been arrested so far in President Nayib Bukele’s crackdown on gang violence.
The Salvadoran newspaper El Faro, which has been fiercely critical of President Nayib Bukele and his imposition of de facto martial law to combat gang violence, revealed in an extensive report this weekend that gangs have largely disappeared from many parts of the country, their members imprisoned or abroad fleeing from authorities.
El Salvador on Tuesday formally opened an immense prison called the Terrorism Confinement Center. The prison has 40,000 beds, making it one of the largest in Latin America, with more capacity than all of El Salvador’s 20 existing penal facilities combined.
China announced on Thursday that it is ready to start negotiations with El Salvador to broker a free trade deal, pushing further commercial and political ties between the two nations.
El Salvador marked the anniversary of its adoption of bitcoin as legal tender this month following a year of dramatic ups and downs fueled by severe crashes in the value of the cryptocurrency.
The governments of Latin America offered solemn condolences to the people of the United Kingdom and the Royal Family over the passing of Queen Elizabeth II, paying their respects to Britain’s longest-ever reigning monarch.
El Salvador President Nayib Bukele criticized the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation’s (FBI) raid on former U.S. President Donald Trump’s personal residence at Mar-A-Lago on Monday in a statement posted by Bukele’s official Twitter account, the Spanish news agency Agencia EFE reported.
El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele told his constituents on Saturday night to stop worrying about the price of bitcoin and “enjoy life.” At Bukele’s urging, El Salvador became the first country to accept bitcoin as legal tender in June 2021.
A bombshell report published Tuesday by the bilingual conservative outlet El American accused the president of El Salvador, Nayib Bukele, of cutting a deal with the nation’s biggest gangs to falsify homicide statistics that abruptly ended when Bukele ordered a spree of arrests against prominent gang members.
The president of El Salvador, Nayib Bukele, announced on Monday that his nation had spent $15.3 million to purchase an additional 500 Bitcoins to add to the nation’s cryptocurrency reserves.
El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele slammed the Biden State Department on Monday, saying his government only received American assistance to fight crime under the administration of President Donald Trump, while President Joe Biden has chosen to side with gangsters.
El Salvador’s government declared a month-long state of emergency on Sunday in response to a recent spike in murders nationwide, the Venezuelan news website Runrun.es reported.
El Salvador President Nayib Bukele criticized Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s ongoing crackdown on participants of Canada’s peaceful “Freedom Convoy” in response to Trudeau supporting the freedoms of Ukrainian citizens while simultaneously stripping Canadians of their constitutionally guaranteed rights.
El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele said on Sunday that the crisis in Ukraine is just a distraction, while the “real war” of interest to free people around the world is being fought over authoritarian coronavirus mandates in Europe, Canada, and the United States.
Two Latin American presidents, Jair Bolsonaro of Brazil and Nayib Bukele of El Salvador, weighed in on the ongoing campaign against American podcaster Joe Rogan on Wednesday, condemning attacks on Rogan as an attempt to stifle freedom of speech and of the press.
VP Harris told reporters in Mexico Tuesday that countries in the region are at fault for the U.S. southern border crisis.
A survey revealed this week that Salvadoran President Bukele has a 94 percent approval rating in El Salvador.
Salvadoran President Bukele urged the U.S. not to fund opposition with American aid previously destined to support state institutions.
The Biden team and Democrats in Congress are intensifying their campaign against the popular Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele, who worked with the previous U.S. administration on limiting migration to the United States.
Vice President Harris is betting on Guatemala alone to help manage the migrant surge fueled mainly by Central Americans.
The government of El Salvador finalized a sweeping cooperation agreement with the Communist Party of China on Tuesday night, less than 24 hours after the administration of President Joe Biden accused several members of President Nayib Bukele’s government of “corruption.”
President Joe Biden’s State Department accused a member of Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele’s cabinet and a former minister of the popular Central American leader of being corrupt in a report to Congress leaked on Monday.
A coalition of U.S.-born and immigrant Salvadorans is urging Vice President Kamala Harris to recognize the small country of El Salvador’s right to pick its own judges.
U.S. Secretary Blinken blasted Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele Tuesday over his country’s Legislative Assembly move to remove top judges.
El Salvador’s legislative assembly voted to dismiss and replace all the top justices of the country’s Supreme Court on Saturday and to fire El Salvador’s top prosecutor on Sunday.
VP Harris spoke to the president of Finland Monday about addressing the surge of migrants from Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador.
President Biden’s State Department derailed negotiations with El Salvador’s government on the migrant crisis by suggesting the country’s popular president is an authoritarian.
El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele declared Monday that soaring migration levels are bad for the U.S. and even worse for Latin America.
President of El Salvador Nayib Bukele used his speech at the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday to criticize the international body over its lack of leadership during the Chinese coronavirus pandemic.
El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele authorized the police to use “lethal force” against gang members on Sunday, accusing gangsters of taking advantage of the coronavirus pandemic to launch a deadly rampage against cops and law-abiding Salvadorans.
Murderous street gangs in El Salvador, home to the notorious transnational criminal organization (TCO) Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13), are reportedly using threats of violence to enforce compliance with the country’s lockdown measures, like social distancing, implemented to stem the spread of the novel coronavirus.
El Salvador this week become the first country in the Americas to ban all foreign entry in a bid to stem the spread of the novel Chinese coronavirus as the disease begins to plague Central America.
The President of El Salvador Nayib Bukele ordered the military into the nation’s parliament on Sunday to demand that lawmakers pass legislation to secure a loan aimed at reducing the country’s shocking levels of gang violence.
Japanese media reported on Monday that Prime Minister Abe Shinzo intervened to convince Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele not to give control of a key port in the country to the Chinese Communist Party.
El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele announced a windfall of alleged “donations” from the Chinese government during a visit to Beijing Tuesday, a marked digression from Bukele hinting he may cut ties with China entirely upon assuming the presidency in February.
The government of El Salvador expelled the entire diplomatic corps of Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro on Saturday, triggering a reciprocal response on Sunday and a war of words in which Maduro dismissed Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele as a “nincompoop.”
The number of migrants coming from El Salvador to the United States is dropping, thanks to an agreement that the Trump administration brokered.
President Nayib Armando Bukele of El Salvador began his address to the U.N. General Assembly on Thursday by pulling out his cell phone, snapping a selfie, and sending it to the “new world” that could not be present in the chamber but was accessible via “the largest network in the world, a network where billions of persons are connected in real-time and share almost every facet of their lives.”
Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele declared over the weekend that his administration is not interested in “blank checks” from the United States, saying he wants to ensure both countries benefit from U.S. taxpayer-funded investments to solve mutual problems with narcotics, violent street gangs, and reduce migration.
