Back to Show
Watch Preview
FRONTLINE
The Deal: Trump, Bukele & the Gangs of El Salvador
Season 2026
Episode 3
An examination of Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele’s deal with President Trump to imprison U.S. deportees, and what each leader stood to gain. FRONTLINE and the Salvadoran news outlet El Faro, now operating in exile, investigate Bukele’s tangled history with the gangs the U.S. says it is fighting.
Support Provided By
54:23
FRONTLINE investigates the lives and views of JD Vance and Tim Walz as they run for vice president.
1:54:23
Investigating the lives & characters of Kamala Harris and Donald Trump as they seek the presidency.
1:24:23
Investigating allegations of fraud and abuse in South Korea’s historic foreign adoption boom.
1:53:51
Examining Biden’s rise to the presidency, the forces that shaped him and his decision to step aside.
53:50
Investigating the rise of far-right extremism in Germany and the fight against it.
53:51
The inside story of the protests dividing college campuses over Israel and the war in Gaza.
1:53:51
Filmed over 34 years, two families struggle to survive in a changing American economy.
1:24:22
Exposing the shadowy figure at the heart of a corruption scandal spanning from Venezuela to the U.S.
54:21
How thousands of Ukrainian children have been taken and held in Russian-controlled areas.
2:24:23
The criminal cases against former President Trump tied to his 2020 election loss.