El Salvador

The top candidates in Costa Rica's presidential election: a tough-on-crime front runner and splintered opposition

Costa Rican presidential candidate Laura Fernandez of the Sovereign People's Party (PPSO) talks to the press during a campaign rally ahead of the February 1 general election, in San Jose, Costa Rica, January 24, 2026. REUTERS/Mayela Lopez

Costa Rica, weeks before election, hosts El Salvador President Bukele to inaugurate new mega-prison

El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele attends a welcome ceremony upon arrival at Juan Santamaria International Airport in Alajuela, Costa Rica, January 13, 2026. REUTERS/Mayela Lopez

El Salvador's Bukele open to staying in power for 10 more years

El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele arrives to take part in a groundbreaking ceremony for the construction of Sky City, a logistics and aviation hub, at the Monsenor Oscar Arnulfo Romero International Airport in San Luis Talpa, El Salvador, December 16, 2025. REUTERS/Jose Cabezas

Venezuelans held in Salvadoran prison look to challenge deportation in US court

Venezuelans who where imprisoned in El Salvador's CECOT mega-prison give statements to the press, in Caracas, Venezuela, December 26, 2025. REUTERS/Gaby Oraa

El Salvador defends mega-prison that is key to Trump deportations

Former US secretary of state Hillary Clinton labelled El Salvador’s Terrorism Confinement Center (above) “brutal” on social media on Dec 22.

Outcry after CBS pulls programme on prison that’s key to Trump deportations

(FILES) Inmates remain in their cell as Costa Rica's Minister of Security Gerald Campos tours the Centre for Terrorism Confinement (CECOT) during a visit organized by El Salvador's Presidency in Tecoluca, El Salvador, on April 4, 2025. The justice system in El Salvador, where President Nayib Bukele is waging a “war” against gangs, has sentenced dozens of members of Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13) to more than 1,000 years in prison, the Attorney General's Office reported on December 21, 2025. (Photo by Marvin RECINOS / AFP)

Right-winger Jose Antonio Kast, Chile’s next president, traces politics back to Pinochet era

FILE PHOTO: Jose Antonio Kast, presidential candidate of the far-right Republican Party, votes in the presidential election, in Santiago, Chile, November 16, 2025. REUTERS/Rodrigo Garrido/File Photo

Honduras presidential candidate Nasralla says Trump’s interference damaged his election chances

Honduran centrist candidate Salvador Nasralla of the Liberal Party attends an interview with Reuters after alleging fraud in the highly contested vote count of the country's presidential election, in Tegucigalpa, Honduras December 4, 2025. REUTERS/Fredy Rodriguez

US to remove tariffs on some products from Ecuador, Argentina, Guatemala and El Salvador

A drone view shows the Dock Sud Port in Avellaneda, Buenos Aires province, Argentina, October 10, 2025. REUTERS/Agustin Marcarian

Liberia agrees to accept wrongly deported migrant Abrego Garcia, US says

FILE PHOTO: Kilmar Abrego, the migrant whose wrongful deportation to El Salvador made him a symbol of U.S. President Donald Trump's aggressive immigration policies, attends an event with supporters as he appears for a check-in at the ICE Baltimore field office three days after his release from criminal custody in Tennessee, in Baltimore, Maryland, U.S. August 25, 2025. REUTERS/Elizabeth Frantz/File Photo

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MDDI (P) 046/10/2025. Published by SPH Media Limited, Co. Regn. No.202120748H. Copyright © 2026 SPH Media Limited. All rights reserved.