WASHINGTON, DC - APRIL 14: US President Donald Trump shakes hands with Nayib Bukele, El Salvador's president, during a meeting in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, US, on Monday, April 14, 2025. (Photo by Al Drago for The Washington Post via Getty Images)

FRONTLINE

The Deal: Trump, Bukele, & The Gangs of El Salvador
FRONTLINE

The Salvadoran president’s deal with Trump to imprison deportees, and what each stood to gain. With the Salvadoran news outlet El Faro, now reporting from exile, President Nayib Bukele’s tangled history with the gangs the U.S. says it is fighting.
Air Date: Tue, Apr 7, 2026 10:00 PM