Nov 15, 2025
Most Viewedis bukele a muslim?
Public reporting and government sources show Nayib Bukele is not publicly identified as a Muslim: his father and some brothers are practicing Muslims, while Bukele has repeatedly said he does not belo...
Nayib Bukele
President of El Salvador since 2019
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16 resultsNov 15, 2025
Most ViewedWhat religion does Nayib Bukele's family follow and how visible is it?
Nayib Bukele comes from a family with visible Muslim roots: his father, Armando Bukele Kattán, converted to Islam, became a leading imam and founded mosques in El Salvador, and several of Nayib’s brot...
Nov 16, 2025
Most ViewedWhich dictators did Trump invite to the White House during his presidency?
Available reporting in the provided results shows that President Donald Trump hosted at least El Salvador’s Nayib Bukele and Syria’s Ahmed al‑Sharaa at the White House during his presidency (see cover...
Nov 29, 2025
Is cecot a place where people get tortured and/or killed? Photos of it have been likened to camps during the holocaust - why would the u.s. purposely send people there?
Multiple independent human-rights organizations, major news outlets and congressional critics report that El Salvador’s mega‑prison CECOT has been the site of routine beatings, overcrowding, incommuni...
Dec 12, 2025
How do political fact-checking totals compare between US presidents and other major world leaders?
US fact‑checking outlets maintain continual tallies and high volumes of checks on American presidents — for example, FactCheck.org and PolitiFact prominently feature repeated, dated analyses of Presid...
Jan 13, 2026
How do Trump's statements about being an authoritarian figure impact his relationships with world leaders?
Donald Trump’s repeated public claims that he would answer only to his “own morality,” that he “doesn’t need international law,” and his embrace of highly personalized, unilateral tools of power have ...
Nov 20, 2025
What human rights or privacy concerns have been raised about mandatory DNA testing for infants in El Salvador?
Reporting on a mandatory newborn DNA-testing law in El Salvador is mixed: one outlet claimed President Nayib Bukele signed such a law requiring DNA tests before birth certificates, while El País repor...
Nov 19, 2025
What law or decree in El Salvador requires DNA tests for baby registration and when was it passed?
Reporting in available sources about a Salvadoran law that mandates DNA testing for newborns is sparse and largely from informal or secondary sites repeating the same claim; mainstream legal documenta...
Nov 14, 2025
Did Rubio turn over Department of Justice MS13 informants to get access to El Salvadoran prisons.
Reporting based on The Washington Post and widespread follow-ups says Secretary of State Marco Rubio promised Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele during a March 13 call to deliver several MS‑13 figures ...
Nov 3, 2025
Bukele , registro de bebes en el salvador con examen de adn obligatorio
El reclamo de que Nayib Bukele o el Gobierno de El Salvador exige un no se sostiene frente a las evidencias disponibles: el gobierno ha desmentido la existencia de una normativa así y las leyes del re...
Oct 20, 2025
What are the differences between authoritarian and transformational leadership?
Authoritarian (autocratic) and transformational leadership differ sharply in decision authority, goals, and effects: , often producing short-term compliance but risking morale and innovation, while , ...
Jan 8, 2026
Has Bukele publicly discussed his faith or religious beliefs?
Nayib Bukele has addressed questions about his faith in public statements: he has repeatedly said he believes in God and Jesus and in the Bible while also disavowing membership in any particular denom...
Jan 6, 2026
Has Trump ever praised other authoritarian leaders?
Yes: over the years Donald Trump has repeatedly praised and expressed fondness for a range of leaders widely described by journalists and analysts as authoritarian — from Hungary’s Viktor Orbán and El...
Jan 3, 2026
what are the steps required for a journalist to get access to CECOT
A reporter seeking entry to El Salvador’s Centro de Confinamiento del Terrorismo (CECOT) must navigate a gatekeepers’ architecture of official accreditation, tightly scripted guided tours and politica...
Dec 22, 2025
How effective have policing and gang-reduction programs been in San Salvador versus neighboring capitals?
San Salvador’s recent policing and gang-reduction push — a mix of mass arrests under a prolonged state of emergency, territorial control operations and some local prevention experiments — has coincide...
Oct 4, 2025
El Salvador Arrested 69000 Gang Members, This Is What Happened
El Salvador did not arrest exactly 69,000 gang members as a settled fact; multiple reports show widely varying totals—ranging from to —because arrests occurred across several waves under a prolonged s...