The 'world's coolest dictator' heads to the White House [View all]
Source: NPR
April 14, 2025 4:18 AM ET
MEXICO CITY — Nayib Bukele, El Salvador's president and self-styled "world's coolest dictator," is due to visit President Trump at the White House on Monday. He's the first Latin American leader to get an official invite to the Oval Office since Trump took office.
Bukele is one of Trump's most crucial regional allies and no one has embraced his anti-immigration policies as enthusiastically. With Bukele's support, over the past few weeks the Trump administration has deported and imprisoned hundreds of alleged Venezuelan and Salvadoran gang members to El Salvador.
Last month's inaugural deportation flight to El Salvador and transfer to the country's notorious mega prison was carefully choreographed and filmed in a slick video that Bukele shared on social media.
More deportations flights have taken off since then — the latest on Sunday — despite continued questions about the lack of transparency, due process and denials that many of those imprisoned have any gang ties at all.
Read more: https://www.npr.org/2025/04/14/nx-s1-5361119/the-worlds-coolest-dictator-heads-to-the-white-house
And Abrego García will most likely NOT be on this guy's plane on the way here.
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