The mega prison Centro de Confinamiento del Terrorismo (Terrorism Confinement Center, CECOT), promoted by Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele as the emblem of his security strategy, has captured global attention. Yet behind the cinematic images and the rhetoric of...
President Donald Trump plans to host El Salvador President Nayib Bukele in Washington next month, people familiar with the matter said, after the Central American leader agreed to jail hundreds of alleged Venezuelan gang members deported from the US. The visit would...
Rafael was waiting for a client in his makeshift shelter, which housed his mill and a small grocery store, when three police officers and three soldiers surrounded him. “They’re going to take Rafael,” someone warned Pedro, one of his younger brothers, who had just...
Around thirty people gathered on Friday at the Office of the UN Resident Coordinator in Caracas to denounce the Maduro regime’s lack of response to their requests regarding the legal status of their loved ones, arbitrarily detained. A month ago, relatives of political...
In summary: The United States deported 238 Venezuelans to El Salvador, accusing them of supposedly belonging to the Tren de Aragua gang. A fake TikTok video with AI-generated images falsely attributes statements to President Bukele regarding the transfer of these...
This month, the U.S. government sent members of the Tren de Aragua gang and Venezuelan migrants to the Salvadoran prison system as part of an agreement between Presidents Trump and Bukele. In that regard, the classification of information by the Salvadoran State about...
