The people of El Salvador lived in fear of gangs for decades. Then President Nayib Bukele decided enough was enough. What happened next was a miracle, and all it took was la mano dura: an iron first. The gangs disappeared—there one week and gone the next.

U.S. President Donald Trump's administration erroneously deported a Salvadoran man as part of three high-profile deportation flights to El Salvador last month, after a judge's ruling prohibited the man's removal to his home country,

The government has said Kilmar Abrego Garcia was deported because of an "administrative error", but has fought against his return to the US.