Tag: Nayib Bukele

• Monday, August 31st 2026 - 22:13 UTC

  Brazil: Flávio Bolsonaro promises 500,000 prison places inspired by the Salvadoran model

  

  Senator Flávio Bolsonaro, the Liberal Party's presidential candidate and Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva's main rival in October's elections, met on Sunday in São Paulo with El Salvador's justice and public security minister, Gustavo Villatoro, and announced he will incorporate into his programme measures inspired by President Nayib Bukele's security policy.

• Monday, August 10th 2026 - 10:55 UTC

  Reform UK in talks with El Salvador over sending foreign prisoners to Bukele's jails

  

  Britain's Reform UK party, led by Nigel Farage, has opened contacts with the government of El Salvador to transfer foreign prisoners to jails in that country should it win the next United Kingdom general election, which must be held by 2029 at the latest. The report was published on Monday by the newspaper The Sun and has not been confirmed by San Salvador.

• Tuesday, June 9th 2026 - 07:07 UTC

  Uruguay's Orsi slips to 12th in a regional presidential ranking; Bukele leads

  

  Uruguay's President Yamandú Orsi fell to 12th among the 18 leaders in the June ranking of best-rated Latin American presidents compiled by the Argentine consultancy CB. With a 38.8% positive image, Orsi dropped one spot from May and remains in the survey's “regular” band.

• Wednesday, May 6th 2026 - 16:38 UTC

  El Salvador puts 486 MS-13 leaders on trial for 29,000 killings in process Bukele compares to Nuremberg

  

  El Salvador launched in late April the largest trial in the country's history against 486 alleged leaders of the Mara Salvatrucha-13, accused of ordering more than 29,000 killings committed between 2012 and 2022, in a process President Nayib Bukele described as “historic” and compared to the Nuremberg trials against Nazi leaders after the Second World War. The proceedings, held before a specialized tribunal with anonymous judges, represent the first case worldwide in which the “command responsibility” principle has been applied to a gang structure.

• Wednesday, April 15th 2026 - 10:00 UTC

  Bukele bets on Google to build “world's best health system” as medical sector decries layoffs

  

  El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele announced on Tuesday in a national broadcast the launch of the second phase of Dr. SV, a public health application developed with Google Cloud that incorporates artificial intelligence based on the Gemini model to detect, diagnose and monitor patients with chronic diseases such as diabetes, hypertension and kidney conditions.

• Thursday, March 5th 2026 - 22:19 UTC

  Trump to gather 12 aligned Latin American leaders in Florida, with Mexico, Brazil and Colombia absent

  

  U.S. President Donald Trump will host leaders from 12 Latin American and Caribbean countries in Doral, Florida, on March 7 for the so-called Shield of the Americas Summit, a meeting the White House is framing as a forum on security, migration and hemispheric cooperation. The gathering comes amid a broader U.S. diplomatic and military push in the region and just weeks before Trump is expected to travel to China.

• Thursday, February 26th 2026 - 13:27 UTC

  Latin America’s best- and worst-rated presidents in new poll: Bukele the best, Delcy the worst

  

  El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele tops a February 2026 regional ranking of Latin American leaders’ public approval, according to a survey by Argentina-based CB Consultora Opinión Pública. Bukele posts 72.6% approval and 24.8% disapproval.

• Wednesday, September 17th 2025 - 10:13 UTC

  El Salvador: Bill passed allowing for seven years of pretrial detention

  

  El Salvador's Legislative Assembly has passed a law by 57 votes to 3, allowing individuals arrested under President Nayib Bukele's “war on gangs” to be held in prison for up to seven years without a trial.

• Saturday, August 2nd 2025 - 10:45 UTC

  Indefinite reelection in El Salvador opens door to dictator in the making

  

  Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele is anything but worried about being called a “dictator,” especially after 57 of his loyal lawmakers passed a reform in a 60-seat Congress approving his potential indefinite reelection, which critics view as the possible consolidation of an “autocratic” regime in the country.

• Thursday, May 1st 2025 - 09:50 UTC

  Ecuadorean ministers tour infamous Salvadoran jail to pick up some ideas

  

  Ecuadorean Ministers John Reimberg (Interior) and Gian Carlo Loffredo (Defense ) toured El Salvador’s Terrorism Confinement Center (Cecot) to pick up some ideas with which to build similar facilities in their country, known for its prison violence problems.