Mr. Bukele, who once described himself as “the world’s coolest dictator,” has grown especially close with the new administration in recent months as he aids Mr. Trump’s mass deportation plan. On ...

MEXICO CITY — Nayib Bukele, El Salvador's president and self-styled "world's coolest dictator," is due to visit President Trump at the White House on Monday. He's the first Latin American leader ...

Several of our past presidents have had authoritarian tendencies such as Nixon with his enemies list and Andrew Jackson’s occasional ignoring of the courts and Congress, but no American ...

Last Tuesday, the State Department upgraded El Salvador’s travel rating to a coveted Level 1, a long-sought goal of President Nayib Bukele that designates the country as one of the safest places ...

Bukele, who has billed himself as “the world’s coolest dictator,” sees his “iron fist” approach to gang violence as critical to luring investment and tourism to the tiny country of 6 million people.

DENVER (AP) — Suspected of backing a coup plot against the longtime dictator of Gambia nearly 20 years ago, Pharing Sanyang described Thursday how he was beaten with pipes and palm tree branches ...

KOAYIAH, Syria — A panicked phone call, then explosions. Abdul Rahman Hamdan recalls how his uncle called him from their family's olive grove early one morning last month. He and his neighbors ...