El Salvador’s ‘jailer for hire’
Gideon talks to the FT’s Michael Stott about Nayib Bukele, president of El Salvador, whose friendship with Donald Trump has been in the spotlight over his willingness to imprison US deportees, notably Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia. Clip: The White House
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Nayib Bukele: the TikTok authoritarian feted across Latin America
El Salvador’s Bukele refuses to repatriate man wrongly deported from US
How El Salvador became a model for the global far right
Trump is halfway to making America a police state
El Salvador offers to swap Venezuelan US deportees for political prisoners
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