On Monday, the influential U.S. outlet The New York Times published an in-depth investigation into the negotiations and pacts between President Nayib Bukele’s administration and the gangs, as well as the part played by several key officials. The story, titled “Trump...
The World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT) records that many human rights defenders in custody, excluding the arrests made during 2025. At least a dozen have been forced to seek refuge abroad to escape the danger of arbitrary detention. Last week, the World...
For nearly six years, Task Force Vulcan, a federal law enforcement team set up by President Trump during his first term in the White House, was enormously successful in pursuing its central mission: taking down the leadership of the violent transnational street gang...
Even among the brutal ranks of the transnational gang called MS-13, Vladimir Arévalo Chávez stands out as a highly effective manager of murder, prosecutors say. Known as “Vampiro,” he has been accused of overseeing killings in at least three countries: of migrants in...
When Nayib Bukele, the president of El Salvador, agreed earlier this year to imprison deportees from the United States, he had a specific request of the Trump administration: the return of top MS-13 leaders in American custody. For the past several months, a team of...
El Salvador’s president said he would send inmates of the country’s notorious mega-prison to France in the wake of a Paris Fashion Week show critiquing the government’s treatment of the prisoners. Nayib Bukele criticised a collection debuted by Willy Chavarria, a...
