The ‘Judicial Black Hole’ of El Salvador’s Prisons is a Warning for Americans — El ‘agujero negro judicial’ de las prisiones de El Salvador es una advertencia para los estadounidenses

04/03/2025

On March 27, 2022, on the heels of a weekend marked by dozens of gang-related murders, El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele and his legislature plunged the country into a régimen de excepción — a state of exception — and declared war against the gangs. The state of...

USA: Stop illegal deportations to El Salvador — EE. UU.: Detengan las deportaciones ilegales a El Salvador

04/03/2025

Under a presidential order by President Trump, 255 individuals have been wrongfully sent from the U.S. to El Salvador. This was done after targeting alleged members of the Tren de Aragua (TdA) criminal group under the Alien Enemies Act. These individuals are now being...

Trump’s Salvadoran Gulag — El Gulag Salvadoreño de Trump

04/03/2025

One thing that could be said about many—and possibly all—of the more than 100 men removed from the United States by the Trump administration under the archaic Alien Enemies Act of 1798 is that Donald Trump has been convicted of more crimes than they have. Trump, after...

Lawyers for Man Deported in Error to El Salvador Assail Trump Administration — Abogados de hombre deportado por error a El Salvador critican duramente al gobierno de Trump

04/03/2025

Lawyers for a Maryland man who was inadvertently deported last month to a notorious Salvadoran prison despite an order that he could remain in the United States angrily urged the judge overseeing his case on Wednesday to force the Trump administration to bring him...

Deported Venezuelans Not at Risk of Torture in El Salvador Prison, US Says — Venezolanos deportados no corren riesgo de tortura en prisión de El Salvador, dice EE. UU.

04/03/2025

President Donald Trump’s administration rejected concerns that accused Venezuelan gang members deported under the Alien Enemies Act are at risk of torture in a notorious El Salvador prison. “It should go without saying that the United States’ position is to abhor...

It’s false that the Salvadoran Church failed to speak out against past violence — Es falso que la Iglesia salvadoreña no se haya pronunciado en el pasado contra la violencia

04/03/2025

In summary A pro-government communicator stated that the Episcopal Conference of El Salvador did not speak out about insecurity, but this is false. Clergy members expressed their concerns about homicidal violence in the country in 2005 and 2014. Pro-government figures...