El Salvador

On the South Florida Roundup, we spoke about whether Miami is facing an exodus, the race to rescue our local coral reef from the effects of climate change (18:44), and we examined Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele’s draconian crusade to bring down the gangs whose violence drives so many Central American migrants here (35:15).

COMMENTARY Florida plays a hemispheric double standard — condemning left-wing tyranny but coddling right-wing assaults on democracy in places like Guatemala.

President Nayib Bukele of El Salvador has been nominated by his New Ideas party to run for reelection in next year’s contest, despite objections from legal experts and opposition figures who say the country’s constitution prohibits his candidacy.

Observers say that a crackdown in Honduras on gangs in the nation’s prisons is eerily similar to one carried out last year in neighboring El Salvador.

El Salvador's president has registered for reelection even though legal experts and opposition figures say the country’s constitution prohibits it.

Candidates to be Guatemala’s next president are pushing a neighbor’s controversial success into the race.

Transgender people in El Salvador face violence and discrimination in their deeply religious country.

COMMENTARY Marco Rubio warns us the Trump indictment threatens U.S. democracy, but he's fine with praising Nayib Bukele — who's threatening democracy in El Salvador.

The Biden administration sanctions "bad actors" in Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras and Nicaragua, hoping to foster reform and curb illegal immigration.

El Salvador wants to build Bitcoin City; Cuba hopes to skirt the U.S. trade embargo. But so far Latin America looks like anything but a cryptocurrency utopia.

El Salvador wants to build Bitcoin City; Cuba hopes to skirt the U.S. trade embargo. But so far Latin America looks like anything but a cryptocurrency utopia.

COMMENTARY The western hemisphere is saddled with a third category of government: the gang wing, countries controlled by violent criminal mafias.