Name: The Deal: Trump Bukele & The Gangs of El Salvador
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2026-04-07

The Deal: Trump Bukele & The Gangs Of El Salvador (2026)

Genre

Documentary

Release Date

April 7, 2026

Studio

PBS, FRONTLINE, Elfaro

Information

Genre

Documentary

Release Date

April 7, 2026

MPAA Rating

Duration

054 minute(s)

Production Budget

Studio

PBS, FRONTLINE, Elfaro

Official Site

Cast and Crew

Director

Juan Ravell

Starring

Donald Trump

Synopsis

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.