Nayib Bukele

El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele and several top Trump administration officials dismissed questions about the fate of a Maryland man wrongfully deported to El Salvador.

COMMENTARY If President Trump hopes to replicate Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele's authoritarian conquest of the judiciary, tiny El Salvador may have a large effect on America's democratic future.

El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele has released the father of a Salvadoran soccer player from prison after the athlete published a plea for his release on social media.

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.

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.

El Salvador's president has responded to gang violence with a sweeping campaign of arrests that raise questions about whether he's violating human rights.

COMMENTARY El Salvador's crises of bloodshed and Bitcoin may be a turning point for Nayib Bukele and his millennial brand of Latin American authoritarianism.

The good news in Latin America and the Caribbean: much of the region turned vaccination tragedy into triumph. The bad news? Just about everything else.

This week El Salvador becomes the first country to accept Bitcoin as legal tender. President Nayib Bukele insists it'll be a boon; critics call it an authoritarian diversion.

Last week El Salvador became the world's first country to make Bitcoin legal tender. But the cryptocurrency's complexity and volatility are big challenges.