Tag: Drugs & Crime

El Salvador’s president, Nayib Bukele, is on a roll. At home, he enjoys an approval rating of around 83 percent, according to recent polls. His profile is rising abroad, too. ...

QUITO, Ecuador — Latin America’s first presidential election of 2025 is in the books. Ecuador’s president, Daniel Noboa, comfortably won reelection over his rival, Luisa González, after a campaign dominated ...

Welcome back to World Brief, where we’re looking at the United States’ deportation scheme with El Salvador, Chinese trade efforts to counter U.S. tariffs, and deadly Russian strikes on Ukraine. ...

U.S. President Donald Trump welcomed El Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele to the White House on Monday. Their meeting centered on bolstering migration cooperation, with Trump saying that he is open ...

Several Latin American leaders are cooperating with U.S. President Donald Trump’s plans for large-scale deportations from the United States—but none more enthusiastically than Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele. Bukele offered last ...

Welcome back to Foreign Policy’s Latin America Brief. The highlights this week: The United States deports hundreds of migrants to El Salvador, Mexicans react to the discovery of a mass ...

When U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio traveled to Central America in February on his first official trip abroad, Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele made him an unusual offer: El Salvador ...

Luis Alberto Castillo tried to do it the right way. According to an affidavit filed by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Castillo, a 29-year-old Venezuelan citizen who had been ...

The arrest of former Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte on March 11, on a warrant issued by the International Criminal Court (ICC), already feels like a seismic event. It’s a startling ...

U.S. President Donald Trump’s long-threatened trade war with the country’s three largest trading partners has become a reality. The United States imposed 25 percent duties on almost all goods from ...