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Top Stories: The shadowy rise of Donald Trump's favorite president: El Salvador’s Nayib Bukele

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Thu May 29 2025

The shadowy rise of Trump's favorite ally: El Salvador's Nayib Bukele

President Donald Trump meets with El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, April 14, 2025. Trump on Monday hosted El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele, the self-described "world's coolest dictator" who is now the US leader's key ally in a controversial push to deport illegal migrants to a notorious Salvadoran prison. The meeting comes as the White House faces pressure over the case of a father who was mistakenly deported to the jail in the Central American country -- whose return a US court has ordered the Trump administration to facilitate.

Nayib Bukele rose to near-total control of El Salvador on a tide of support from the very gang he's credited with defeating.

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