Overview - The Deal: Trump Bukele & The Gangs of El Salvador
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Spoken Languages
- Español
- English
Production companies
Name: PBS
Production country United States of America
Name: FRONTLINE
Production country United States of America
Name: Elfaro
Production country
Overview
Three months after President Donald Trump returned to office in 2025 and began his major immigration crackdown, he held a White House sit-down with a popular Latin American leader who had once called himself the world's coolest dictator. As the documentary explores, Bukele opened the doors of the notorious Salvadoran prison known as CECOT to planeloads of mostly Venezuelan U.S. deportees that the Trump administration had swept up and accused of being gang members. Later reporting would reveal that most of the men had no criminal convictions in the U.S. or proven gang affiliations.
Cast
Name: Donald Trump
Character: Self
Popularity: 2.1584
Name: Nayib Bukele
Character: Self
Popularity: 0.0286
Name: Will Lyman
Character: Narrator (voice)
Popularity: 0.7844
Name: Sebastian Rotella
Character: Self
Popularity: 0.0297
