Nayib Bukele: the Salvadoran ally in Trump's deportation machine

In March 2025, the Trump administration announced it had deported hundreds of men, who it falsely claimed were all members of a gang called Tren de Aragua, to El Salvador. To accomplish this, President Donald Trump relied on El Salvador's young president, Nayib Bukele, to house the prisoners in the country's immense Terrorism Confinement Center, or CECOT. Bukele, now serving his second term as president, has since become both a darling of the U.S. far-right and a target of Democrats and other...