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First Thing: Trump announces extension of Iran ceasefire until ‘discussion concluded’

Nayib Bukele’s crackdown on gang violence has included a decree allowing mass trials, which

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

Right-wing candidate pulls ahead in first round of Colombia's presidential vote

gangs policy of El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele, which has driven down homicide rates but fueled accusations of human rights abuses. "Today's election isn't just important for us, it's important

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

Colombia prepares to go to polls in election shadowed by resurgence of political violence

violence now is much more territorially concentrated, largely entrenched in the main areas where illegal economic routes operate … It clearly generates a lot of media noise, but it does not have the national reach

Who Is Nayib Bukele? El Salvador’s ‘coolest dictator’

violence.”  Young members