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El Salvador President Nayib Bukele, who is seeking reelection, and his wife Gabriela Rodriguez show their inked fingers after voting in the general election in San Salvador, El Salvador, Sunday, Feb. 4, 2024. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo)

El Salvador’s Nayib Bukele heads for reelection as president but troubled tally delays results

By Megan Janetsky and Marcos Alemán - Associated Press

Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele waves during the opening ceremony of the Central American and Caribbean Games, in San Salvador, El Salvador, Friday, June 23, 2023. (AP Photo/Arnulfo Franco)

El Salvador’s president is running for reelection, though critics say the constitution prohibits him

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El Salvador's President-elect Nayib Bukele speaks to the press at Mexico's National Palace after meeting with the President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador in Mexico City, Tuesday, March 12, 2019. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte)

Nayib Bukele, El Salvador president, snubs visiting Biden envoy

By Joshua Goodman - Associated Press

FILE - In this Feb. 17, 2021 file photo, Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele speaks before the start of vaccination of medical staff with the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine at the Atlacatl Medical Unit of the Salvadoran Social Security Institute in San Salvador, El Salvador. Bukele who became president by defeating both the leftist Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front, FMLN, and the right-wing Nationalist Republican Alliance, ARENA, party, was bounced from the FMLN in October 2017, accused of violating the party's principles. Now he has swept both parties again in congress by controlling 56 of the 84 seats. (AP Photo/Salvador Melendez, File)

AP Sources: El Salvador president snubs visiting Biden envoy

By JOSHUA GOODMAN - Associated Press

In this April 10, 2020, photo, Detroit Police Capt. Jevon Johnson, right, talks with Lt. Pride Henry outside the TCF Center, in Detroit. The coronavirus pandemic that has crippled big-box retailers and mom and pop shops worldwide may be making a dent in illicit business, too. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)

Crime drops worldwide amid coronavirus crisis

By Stefanie Dazio, Franklin Briceno and Michael Tarm - Associated Press

In this April 9, 2020, photo, amid concerns of the spread of COVID-19, Dallas ISD police officers Mylon Taylor, left, and Gary Pierre push a car that ran out of gas while waiting in line for the weekly school meal pick up for students in Dallas. The coronavirus pandemic that has crippled big-box retailers and mom and pop shops worldwide may be making a dent in illicit business, too. (AP Photo/LM Otero)

Crime drops around the world as COVID-19 keeps people inside

By STEFANIE DAZIO and FRANKLIN BRICENO and MICHAEL TARM - Associated Press

In this Feb. 12, 2020 photo, transgender woman Leticia shows a photograph of Camila Díaz, another transgender woman she met while migrating to the U.S. where they both turned themselves in to U.S. immigration authorities and were eventually deported, during an interview at the office of rights group &quot;Arcoiris Trans,&quot; or Rainbow Trans, in San Salvador. Camila Díaz disappeared the night of Jan. 30, 2019 as she worked the streets of San Salvador and was found the next day, badly beaten but still alive. Emergency personnel took her to the hospital, where she died on Feb. 3. According to investigations, police had stopped Díaz in the street, and later threw her from a moving police vehicle on a highway. (AP Photo/Salvador Melendez)

Salvadorans who fled to US to escape violence returned to it

By MARCOS ALEMAN and CLAUDIA TORRENS - Associated Press

BREAKING NEWS BANNER FROM THE WASHINGTON TIMES

Strong earthquake off coast of El Salvador

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This May 25, 2018, file photo provided by Evelin Roxana Meyer shows her son, Eduardo Almendarez Meyer, right, alongside his father and her husband, Douglas Almendarez, in La Union, Honduras, a day before they left for the United States. Evelin was told in August that her son won't be leaving the U.S. until Nov. 27. Eduardo has been held at a government-contracted shelter in Brownsville, Texas, since he was separated from his father in early June. (Evelin Roxana Meyer via AP, File)

Sex abuse claims raise pressure to reunite migrant families

By JULIE WATSON and MARCOS ALEMAN - Associated Press