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Overview of El Salvador - U.S. News 327109
Video: El Salvador’s “Coolest Dictator” Bukele Begins Controversial Second Term with Backing from Biden & Trump - DN! 04.06.24417929
El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele cements power as he begins second term - Al Jazeera 01.06.24421293
The ‘world’s coolest dictator’ dreams of a Bitcoin utopia. But there’s a price - Open Democracy 14.03.24402733
Salvadorans Have Traded Their Rights for Uncertain Security - Jacobin 02.03.24402608
Bukele attacks gender theory and removes it from public schools in El Salvador - El Pais 01.03.24421294
El Salvador’s president gets rock-star welcome at conservative gathering outside Washington - AP News 22.02.24421296
El Salvador's Bukele wins supermajority in Congress after painstaking vote count - Associated Press 20.02.24398512
Nayib Bukele is not the hero conservatives think he is - The Telegraph 14.02.24421295
Nayib Bukele’s hidden cabinet - El Pais 12.02.24421292
El Salvador: Bukele confirmed as president after final count - DW 10.02.24397605
The president jailed 1% of El Salvador's population. Their children are paying the price - CTV News 09.02.24397801
The Drop in Crime in El Salvador Is Stunning, but It Has a Dark Side - NYT 08.02.24397792
Caos en el recuento de votos de las elecciones de El Salvador en las que Bukele se proclamó ganador, mientras la oposición pide anularlas - BBC 08.02.24397606
Nayib Bukele, El Salvador's would-be dictator, re-elected president - WSWS 07.02.24400074
El Salvador opposition warns it may ask to nullify congressional election results - AP News 07.02.24397804
Human rights crisis could deepen during Bukele’s second term - Amnesty 06.02.24397220
Video: ¿la popularidad arrasadora de Bukele pone en vilo la democracia? - France24 06.02.24396673
Bukele consuma un fraude para instalar una dictadura - El Faro 05.02.24396669
‘Coolest dictator’ to ‘philosopher king,’ Nayib Bukele’s path to reelection in El Salvador - AP News 05.02.24396935
El Salvador Embraces Future With Bitcoin As Bukele Secures Historic Victory - Forbes 05.02.24397799
El Salvador’s Nayib Bukele takes aim at critics in looking ahead to 2nd presidential term - AP 05.02.24396671
El Salvador's Bukele re-elected as president in landslide win - Reuters 04.02.24397805
El Salvador's president eyes re-election on back of gang crackdown - BBC 04.02.24397790
'World's Coolest Dictator' Has Clear Path to Win El Salvador Vote - VOA 04.02.24397810
El Salvador Election Pits Security Against Democracy - U.S. News 03.02.24397796
Nayib Bukele, El Salvador's popular but authoritarian president, declares election win - NPR 03.02.24397803
Video: Nayib Bukele looks set for easy win in El Salvador's election - CNN 03.02.24397800
Why the 'world's coolest dictator' is on course for a landslide win in El Salvador - NPR 02.02.24397797
‘Trapped in this hell’: How one El Salvador town transformed under Bukele - Al Jazeera 02.02.24396479
El Salvador's Bukele responds to Democratic lawmakers attacking him for human rights violations and more - Fox News 31.01.24397793
El Salvador’s Bukele has everyone’s attention as he seeks reelection in spite of the constitution - AP News 31.01.24397806
‘Unwaveringly loyal’: Why El Salvador’s Bukele is poised for re-election - Al Jazeera 31.01.24397795
Explainer: El Salvador's 2024 Presidential and Legislative Elections - AS/COA 31.01.24397812
El Salvador's Bukele looks set for landslide election win on gang crackdown - Reuters 30.01.24397798
El Salvador VP acknowledges mistakes in war on gangs but says country is ‘not a police state’ - AP News 30.01.24397807
Bukele, the iron fist leader without rival in El Salvador’s elections - El Pais 28.01.24 421297
Video: How Bukele broke the gangs - El Faro 24.01.24396668
El Salvador's Bukele looks set to cruise to controversial presidential reelection, poll - Reuters 16.01.24397808
Podcast series: Bukele, el señor de Los sueños (spanish only) - Central 15.01.24397607
Votes by El Salvador’s diaspora surge, likely boosting President Bukele in elections - AP News 09.01.24397813
El Salvador's Nayib Bukele Takes His Presidential Reelection Campaign Beyond the Country's Borders - U.S. News 04.01.24397809
Can Anything Stop El Salvador’s Bitcoin-Loving, Backsliding Leader? - Foreign Policy 02.01.24397802
El Salvador kicks off election campaigns as incumbent's bid faces criticism over constitutionality - Reuters 03.10.23376730
Nayib Bukele’s authoritarianism infects Latin American politics - El Pais 21.08.23376742
El Salvador's leader, criticized internationally for gang crackdown, tells UN it was the right thing - CTV News 19.09.23376720
Mass Gangster Roundup Made El Salvador as Safe as Canada, Bukele Tells UN - Bloomberg 19.09.23397794
El Salvador's Bukele shows strong lead for 2024 vote -opinion poll - Reuters 28.08.23376751
El Salvador's Bukele Shows Strong Lead for 2024 Vote -Opinion Poll - U.S. News 28.08.23397811
In El Salvador, Workers Fight to Protect Public Services - NACLA 15.08.23367468
As free press withers in El Salvador, pro-government social media influencers grow in power - AP News 12.08.23376713
El Salvador sends 8,000 troops, police to rural province in gang crackdown - Al Jazeera 02.08.23363480
Little interest from young people in elections in El Salvador - Prensa Latina English 01.08.23376749
El Salvador clears way for mass trials as crackdown on gangs ramps up - Guardian 27.07.23376740
El Salvador’s Congress votes to allow mass trials in gang crackdown - Al Jazeera 26.07.23376716
Inside the growing cult of El Salvador's Nayib Bukele, Latin America's political star - Yahoo News 25.07.23376722
Salvadoran government accused of doctoring true extent of Covid deaths - Guardian 19.07.23376715
El Salvador's secretive mega-jail - BBC 14.07.23359126
Salvadoran President Bukele's party names him as 2024 candidate - Reuters 10.07.23376741
El Salvador President Nayib Bukele nominated for reelection despite constitutional questions - AP News 09.07.23376738
Nayib Bukele seeks to extend his time in power - El Pais 09.07.23376744
Video: El secretismo que rodea al Cecot, la megacárcel símbolo de la guerra de Bukele contra las pandillas - BBC 06.07.23358030
El Salvador's president registers for reelection despite constitutional objections - CTV News 26.06.23376725
El Salvador's President Is Running for Reelection, Though Critics Say the Constitution Prohibits Him - U.S. News 26.06.23376745
El Salvador week with Central American games and twisted politics - Prensa Latina 17.06.23376727
El Salvador slashes size of Congress ahead of elections - Reuters 07.06.23376739
In El Salvador, Bukele pledges prison for white-collar criminals like the one for gangs - NBC 02.06.23376721
El Salvador president pledges white-collar prison in 'war' on corruption - Reuters 02.06.23376743
El Salvador’s Opposition Eyes a Long-Shot Coalition to Unseat Bukele - WPR 01.06.23376736
Fragmented forces in El Salvador for elections - Prensa Latina English 30.05.23376753
Ex-El Salvador president sentenced to 14 years for negotiating with gangs - NBC 29.05.23376723
El Salvador ex-president sentenced to 14 years over gang talks - Al Jazeera 29.05.23376734
El Salvador gangs: Derelict gang houses given to locals - BBC 28.05.23348118
El Salvador gangs: Mass arrests bring calm but at what price? - BBC 19.05.23346813
El Salvador president blasts Trump indictment: 'Just imagine if this happened in any other country' - Fox News 25.04.23376718
El Salvador country profile - BBC 03.04.23376714
El Salvador committing ‘systematic’ abuses in gang purge: Amnesty - Al Jazeera 03.04.23376719
El Salvador: One year into state of emergency, authorities are systematically committing human rights violations - Amnesty International 03.04.23376732
Electoral reforms in El Salvador Pave Way for Further Consolidation of Power - WOLA 23.03.23376737
Salvadorans in poll favor Bukele for re-election despite constitutional ban - NBC 15.03.23376754
El Salvador’s false dilemma - CNN 11.03.23376717
Bukele Has Delivered El Salvador to the Military He Once Defied - WPR 10.03.23376733
Why El Salvador’s president Nayib Bukele wants everyone to know about his new prison - CNN 07.03.23333733
Bukele’s ‘Cool Authoritarian’ Model Makes for a Dangerous Export - World Politics Review 06.03.23333726
El Salvador’s massive new prison and the strongman behind it, explained - Vox 05.03.23333727
Mothers in El Salvador wonder if their imprisoned sons will ever be released - NPR 03.03.23333731
Why human rights groups are calling out El Salvador's new mega prison - CBC 28.02.23333730
Photos: Inside El Salvador’s new ‘mega prison’ for gang members - Al Jazeera 27.02.23333734
El Salvador’s president is flaunting a new mega prison. Activists are worried. - WashigtonPost 26.02.23332382
Thousands of tattooed inmates pictured in El Salvador mega-prison - BBC 25.02.23332225
US assures the government of El Salvador negotiated a vote with gangs - Prensa Latina 25.02.23376746
Video: El Salvador moves 2,000 alleged gang members to new ‘mega prison’ - Al Jazeera 25.02.23333740
El Salvador crackdown breaks the gangs – at huge cost to human rights - Guardian 20.02.23330709
El Salvador prisoner ‘rearrests’ fuel new concerns - Al Jazeera 17.02.23330324
How El Salvador’s Bitcoin-Loving President Won Over Wall Street - Bloomberg 16.02.23333732
El Salvador Vows Gang Crackdown Will Go on as Citizens Cheer Safer Streets - U.S. News 15.02.23376735
Hostile Attacks, Surveillance a Threat to El Salvador's Media - VOA 15.02.23333729
El Salvador extends special powers in fight against gangs - AP 15.02.23333728
Human rights complaints mount against Bukele’s state of exception in El Salvador - WSWS 13.02.23330484
Hundreds of Children Packed in El Salvador's Overcrowded Prisons -Rights Group - U.S. News 27.01.23327145