Nayib Bukele
- 2d ago
Costa Rica opens 5,100-place mega-prison modelled on Bukele's El Salvador facility
President Laura Fernández inaugurated the CACCO on Wednesday, 14 October 2026, with first inmate transfers due at the end of October. The prison sits in the La Reforma complex outside San José and is modelled on El Salvador's CECOT.
- 2d ago
Bukele proposes conditional early release for about half of gang-collaboration prisoners
Nayib Bukele said on Tuesday, 13 October, that a plan could free roughly half of El Salvador's jailed gang collaborators on conditional release. Rights groups say innocent people are among the more than 92,000 detained under the state of exception.
- Aug 1
Truck bomb wounds 11 in Colombia's Cucutá six days before far-right president-elect takes office
A truck loaded with explosives detonated outside a police station in the Colombian border city of Cucutá on Saturday, wounding at least 11 people just six days before the inauguration of far-right president-elect Abelardo de la Espriella.
- Jun 28
Race against time in Venezuela: 33 pulled from rubble as death toll rises beyond 1,400
Four days after twin earthquakes struck northern Venezuela, rescue teams have pulled 33 people alive from collapsed buildings, but anger grows over a government response many call insufficient.
- Jun 28
Venezuela earthquake death toll reaches 1,430 as Czech USAR team arrives and builds base camp
Two powerful earthquakes struck Venezuela on Wednesday evening, leaving at least 1,430 people dead, 3,238 injured and nearly 69,000 missing. Czech rescuers arrived Sunday morning and are now preparing to search collapsed buildings in the hardest-hit coastal state of La Guaira.
- Jun 21
Right-wing hardliner Abelardo de la Espriella wins Colombian presidency, preliminary results show
Abelardo de la Espriella, a Trump-backed businessman who calls himself 'The Tiger', has won Colombia's presidential runoff with a narrow margin over leftist senator Iván Cepeda, according to preliminary results from Sunday's vote.
- Jun 1
Colombia's far-right outsider De la Espriella stuns with first-round win, triggering fraud claims and a polarized runoff
Abelardo de la Espriella, a far-right political newcomer, won Colombia's presidential first round with 43.7% of the vote, setting up a tense June 21 runoff against leftist Iván Cepeda amid unsubstantiated fraud allegations from President Gustavo Petro.
- Jun 1
Colombia presidential election heads to runoff as outsider de la Espriella edges leftist Cepeda
Right-wing outsider Abelardo de la Espriella and leftist senator Iván Cepeda will face off in a June 21 runoff after neither secured a majority in Colombia's presidential election on Sunday.
- May 31
Colombia presidential election heads to runoff between hard-right 'Tiger' de la Espriella and leftist Cepeda
Hard-right populist Abelardo de la Espriella and leftist senator Ivan Cepeda will face off in Colombia's June 21 presidential runoff after a polarizing first round that saw de la Espriella outperform expectations.