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The Guardian mentioned it first (Oct 21, 2026, 7:00 AM EDT). Right-leaning outlets followed 6 hours later, least biased outlets 30 hours later.
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13 articles mention El Salvador in the last 7 days (Oct 20 to Oct 26).
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| The Guardian | How to build a police state | William WheelerThe Guardian To understand where Trump is trying to take the US, we should look to the authoritarian playbook of his favorite ally: El Salvador’s Nayib Bukele One afternoon last year, Donald Trump welcomed “a friend” to the White House – El Salvador’s Nayib Bukele, the world’s most popular authoritarian. “I knew him as a very young man,” the US president said before the cameras. “He’s done a fantastic job. Mr President, it’s an honor to have you.” Since March 2022, when gangs in El Salvador murdered 87 people over a weekend, Bukele has maintained a state of emergency in which key civil liberties are suspended and 2% of the adult population has been jailed – about 100,000 people, at least half of whom are probably not gang members, say local rights groups. The narrative of “the Bukele miracle” – that he swiftly dismantled fearsome gangs and restored order – has made him an icon across Latin America, where a new host of rightwing leaders have sought to replicate his heavy-handed tactics. And in the US, Bukele’s overnight success as a strongman has made him a hero of the American right. Continue reading... | 0.60 | |
| The New York Times | Ambush of Salvadoran Soldiers Escalates Haiti’s Anti-Gang MissionThe New York Times With four soldiers missing, Haiti’s new Gang Suppression Force, already off to a rocky start, is facing its first crisis. | 0.60● | |
| The New York Times | The Bukeleization of Latin America Has ArrivedThe New York Times Nayib Bukele’s notoriously harsh and wildly popular security crackdown in El Salvador is spawning imitators and remaking the region. | 0.70 | |
| The New York Times | The Bukeleization of Latin America Has ArrivedThe New York Times Nayib Bukele’s notoriously harsh and wildly popular security crackdown in El Salvador is spawning imitators and remaking the region. | 0.70 | |
| The Washington Times | El Salvador deploys special forces to Haiti to help find 4 missing soldiers who came under attackThe Washington Times El Salvador deployed 100 special forces soldiers to Haiti on Thursday to help rescue four missing soldiers from the Central American country who recently came under attack by gangs, two officials told The Associated Press. | 0.80● | |
| Bloomberg | Haiti Hostage Crisis Drags in El Salvador Elite Forces, Reports SayBloomberg El Salvador has sent 100 members of its special forces to Haiti in a bid to rescue four of its military personnel who were kidnapped by gangs in the troubled Caribbean nation, the Miami Herald and the Associated Press reported. | 0.80● | |
| UPI | Bukele launches military rescue operation in Haiti; U.S. backs effortUPI El Salvador President Nayib Bukele launched a military combat operation in Haiti to rescue four Salvadoran aviation technicians kidnapped by gangs. | 0.50 | |
| Breitbart | El Salvador's Nayib Bukele Declares War on Haiti Gangs: 'We Can Finish You'Breitbart President of El Salvador Nayib Bukele announced on Wednesday the launch of a military operation in Haiti to rescue the four Salvadoran Air Force personnel who went missing during a weekend ambush by local violent gangs. The post El Salvador’s Nayib Bukele Declares War on Haiti Gangs: ‘We Can Finish You’ appeared first on Breitbart . | 0.70● | |
| New York Post | El Salvador launching military operation to rescue hostages held by Haitian gangsNew York Post “Today’s attack is nothing compared to what is coming if they do not release the four hostages alive. And do not take our words as empty threats,” El Salvador president Nayib Bukele said. | 0.80● | |
| The Daily Caller | Bukele Threatens To Invade Haiti Over Gang-Abducted SalvadoransThe Daily Caller ‘already finished with the gangs in El Salvador’ | 0.40 | |
| Breitbart | El Salvador Logs over 10,500 Gang Member Convictions Since 2022Breitbart At least 10,561 gang members have been convicted by Salvadoran courts over the past four years since the start of the crackdown on gangs began in 2022, Attorney General Rodolfo Delgado detailed on Tuesday. The post El Salvador Logs over 10,500 Gang Member Convictions Since 2022 appeared first on Breitbart . | 0.90● | |
| The Daily Wire | Salvadoran President Warns Haitian Gangs Holding Hostages: ‘We Can Finish With You Too’The Daily Wire Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele warned Haitian gangs that his military could “finish with you too” after four Salvadoran aviation technicians were taken hostage following an ambush Sunday. The four technicians, whom Bukele described as “non-combatants,” were in Haiti as part of the United Nations-backed international Gang Suppression Force. Salvadoran officials initially said the men had ... | 0.80● | |
| The Guardian | ‘I never saw my son, until they handed him over in a bag’: inside El Salvador’s brutal crime crackdownThe Guardian President Nayib Bukele’s campaign of mass arrest has been marked by allegations of torture and killing. Four years on, 120,000 people are still in prison At midnight on a Monday in December 2021, dozens of soldiers and police officers stormed into the home of Sandra Carolina Velasco Mena. They were looking for her 22-year-old son, Jefferson Alexánder Hernández Velasco. “They wanted to arrest young people,” Sandra says. “Two of the policemen said it was because they were short of three people in their quota.” Continue reading... | 0.80● |
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| The New York Times | 1.0% | 3 | 296 |
| The Guardian | 0.3% | 2 | 703 |
| Bloomberg | 0.3% | 1 | 371 |
| UPI | 0.6% | 1 | 158 |
| The Washington Times | 0.3% | 1 | 374 |
| New York Post | 0.1% | 1 | 883 |
| The Daily Caller | 0.6% | 1 | 170 |
| The Daily Wire | 0.4% | 1 | 228 |
| Breitbart | 0.5% | 2 | 404 |
Coverage by lean
The share of stories that match the query, in the last 7 days, averaged over the outlets of each political lean with at least 3 stories. The groups differ in size, so a single outlet weighs more in the smaller ones.
- Left-leaning3 of 15 sources
- 0.1%
- Least biased1 of 8 sources
- 0.1%
- Right-leaning5 of 15 sources
- 0.1%
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