El Salvador refuses to return prisoner

How ‘The World’s Coolest Dictator’ transformed El Salvador and grew close to Donald Trump

President Nayib Bukele is widely popular in El Salvador, but he has also overseen the democratic backsliding of the country since being elected in 2019. He’s brushed aside term limits, gained a supermajority in the national assembly and declared a state of emergency which curtails many civil rights. Now, he’s become key to Donald Trump’s deportation plans, after striking a deal to detain deported migrants in his prisons.

El Salvador refuses to return prisoner

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump's top advisers and Nayib Bukele, the president of El Salvador, said Monday they have no basis for the Central American nation to return a Maryland man who was wrongly deported and placed in a notorious…