El Salvador

President Nayib Bukele says that his new education minister, a military officer, will restore discipline to schools where gangs once recruited. A school workers’ union called the appointment “absurd.”

Over the past four months, a photojournalist documented the lives of five families whose sons had been imprisoned in El Salvador, including their long-awaited reunions. CECOT left a mark on the men, their loved ones and Venezuela.

Three families awaited news about their loved ones, who were sent to a maximum-security Salvadoran prison. Now that the families have been reunited, they open up about the harm they experienced.

The Trump administration insists this week that scrapping presidential term limits in El Salvador doesn't make authoritarian President Nayib Bukele a dictator. But critics say Bukele's move is straight from Latin America's autocrat playbook.

More than 200 Venezuelans were sent to El Salvador's maximum security prison in March, including Frengel Reyes, who was living in Tampa with his wife and is now back in his homeland without her. Ever since returning to Venezuela, Reyes said he's haunted by the four months he spent in prison.

ProPublica compiled a first-of-its-kind, case-by-case accounting of 238 Venezuelan men who were held in El Salvador.

Albert Jesús Rodríguez Parra was one of more than 230 Venezuelan immigrants the Trump administration sent to a maximum-security prison in El Salvador. After his release, he says he wants the world to know what happened to him.

Fear has long simmered among critics of President Nayib Bukele’s concentration of power in El Salvador. Now, a new wave of government repression has driven more than 100 human rights advocates, journalists, lawyers, academics and environmentalists to flee the country.

Venezuela's attorney general has launched an investigation into El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele for alleged mistreatment of Venezuelan migrants. The migrants were detained in a maximum-security prison after being deported from the United States.

For El Salvador’s president, Nayib Bukele, the rewards appear to have included, among other things, a White House visit and stamp of approval, despite widespread concerns over Bukele’s crackdown on civil liberties.

Critics of Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele call his "arbitrary" arrest of human rights advocate Ruth López a deepening sign that El Salvador — where President Trump is sending hundreds of deportees this year — is today a dictatorship.

Human rights groups have called for the immediate release of Ruth López, whose whereabouts are unknown since her arrest by police in El Salvador late Sunday.