The Deal: Trump Bukele & The Gangs of El Salvador

About The Deal: Trump Bukele & The Gangs of El Salvador

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.

The Deal: Trump Bukele & The Gangs of El Salvador (2026) is a documentary film directed by Juan Ravell. It runs 54 minutes and was released in April 2026.

Donald Trump appears as Self, Nayib Bukele as Self, Will Lyman as Narrator (voice), and Sebastian Rotella as Self. American members can watch it on PBS Documentaries Amazon Channel.