It wasn’t just the money the United States would pay to house deportees in El Salvador that encouraged the Bukele government to accept such an agreement. He had a specific request: that a group of MS-13 leaders being prosecuted in the U.S. be sent to his...
A group of Democratic U.S. senators introduced legislation Thursday that would require the Trump administration to share reports on the steps they are taking to comply with court orders surrounding deportations to El Salvador. The legislation was introduced as a...
Three days after the complete closure of the Pan-American Highway’s Los Chorros section, following another landslide on one of the slopes being worked on by the Ministry of Public Works and Transport (MOPT), authorities have yet to provide further details about...
On the occasion of the International Day of Peasant Struggles, La Cloc – Vía Campesina El Salvador, which brings together peasants, farmers, landless individuals, rural youth and women, Indigenous communities, and other rural populations, issues a grave warning to the...
Pedro Escobar Blanco, one of two hundred and thirty-eight Venezuelans deported by the Trump Administration to a maximum-security prison in El Salvador on March 15th, never met the lawyer who is representing him in U.S. immigration court. They haven’t spoken by phone...
The government of a tiny Latin American nation is once again enthralling an outsized number of foreign fans, using them to scrub its international image, and encouraging them to take bits and pieces of its authoritarian model home to their own countries. For decades,...
