When José Wilfredo Ayala Alcántara, “Indio de Hollywood,” walked out of the Zacatecoluca maximum-security prison for the third-to-last time, he carried a message about a pact with the Bukele government that was meant for MS-13 strongholds on the street. It...
El Salvador’s recent $1.4 billion bailout by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) aimed to cut short President Nayib Bukele’s unwieldy cryptocurrency goals and their toll on the country’s worsening debt crisis. Observers declared that El Salvador’s bitcoin project...
El congresista caído en desgracia convertido en presentador de cable MAGA Matt Gaetz encabezó una delegación de diputados republicanos —y un congresista demócrata— en una visita a la tristemente célebre megaprisión de El Salvador, donde reclusos deportados de Estados...
Earlier this year, President Nayib Bukele of El Salvador struck an agreement with the Trump administration to accept deported migrants and detain them in mega-prisons. The deportation flights have made headlines for weeks, as legal challenges continue to unfold in...
The last time Miriam Aguilera spoke with her 27-year-old son, Gustavo, was March 14. He told her he would be deported to Venezuela the next day. He called her from a detention center in Texas, where he had been held since February. U.S. Immigration and Customs...
IF I ASKED YOU TO THINK OF CLASSIC IMAGES from the Obama era, I bet one of the first to come to mind would be the HOPE poster: the iconic stencil from the 2008 campaign that portrays the then-future president in deep blue and red hues, created by artist Shepard Fairey...
