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In this photo released by Senator Van Hollen's press office, Hollen, right, speaks with Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran citizen who was living in Maryland and deported to El Salvador by the Trump administration, in a hotel restaurant in San Salvador, El Salvador, Thursday, April 17, 2025. (Press Office Senator Van Hollen, via AP)
Maryland Sen. Van Hollen meets with Abrego Garcia in El Salvador amid court fight over US return
 
El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele gives a press conference in San Salvador, El Salvador, Tuesday, Jan. 14, 2025. (AP Photo/Salvador Melendez)
Trump administration in talks to send Venezuelan gang members to El Salvador prisons
The Trump administration says it’s in talks with El Salvador to revive an agreement that could allow the United States to send non-Salvadoran migrants to the Central American country.
 
El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele gives a press conference in San Salvador, El Salvador, Tuesday, Jan. 14, 2025. (AP Photo/Salvador Melendez)
El Salvador’s Congress clears hurdle to speed constitutional reforms
El Salvador’s Congress has ratified a constitutional reform that will make it easier and faster to make constitutional changes in the future, a change critics say will allow President Nayib Bukele and his party to further consolidate power.
 
Regional court faults El Salvador for denying a mother’s access to abortion, violating her rights
The Inter-American Court of Human Rights has found El Salvador’s government responsible for violating the rights of a young Salvadoran woman who was denied an abortion of her anencephalic fetus in a country with a total abortion ban.
 
FILE - El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele greets supporters after he presented himself as the presidential candidate for the New Ideas Party in his bid for reelection, in San Salvador, El Salvador, Oct. 27, 2023. Bukele's administration launched a new Internet voting system in January 2024, for Salvadorans living abroad, boosting access for people who previously had to cast their vote by mail. (AP Photo/Salvador Melendez, File)
Votes by El Salvador’s diaspora surge, likely boosting President Bukele in elections
A record-breaking 51,226 Salvadorans living abroad voted in El Salvador’s upcoming presidential election in the first three days after the country opened overseas electronic voting for the first time, two electoral officials confirmed to The Associated Press on Tuesday.
 
Supporters greet El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele after he presented himself as the presidential candidate for the New Ideas Party in San Salvador, El Salvador, Friday, Oct. 27, 2023. (AP Photo/Salvador Melendez)
More Bukele critics join effort seeking to nullify El Salvador leader’s candidacy for reelection
As El Salvador President Nayib Bukele seeks reelection, a growing number of voices have called for electoral authorities to annul the populist leader’s candidacy, arguing that it’s a clear violation of the country’s constitution.