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El Salvador holds mass trial for 486 alleged members of notorious MS-13 gang

Nayib Bukele’s crackdown on gang violence through controversial emergency powers. Prosecutors say the charges

Bukele signs reforms allowing life prison sentences for people as young as 12

Nayib Bukele on Wednesday signed into law constitutional reforms to permit life prison sentences for people as young as 12, a contentious reform that follows other heavy-handed measures pushed through by the populist leader

Human rights groups raise alarm over fate of Salvadorans deported from U.S.

Nayib Bukele. He implemented a temporary suspension of rights, known as the [state of exception](https://www.npr.org/2022/03/29/1089533665/salvadorans-are-concerned-over-president-bukeles-new-power-from-state-of-emergen), after a weekend killing spree by gangs in the country. The emergency order was only supposed