In June 2021, the Government of El Salvador passed the Bitcoin Law, which granted the cryptocurrency legal status, created the Chivo platform, and touted its main benefits as promoting “true financial inclusion,” facilitating and reducing the cost of remittances, and...
On March 15, the U.S. government deported 238 male Venezuelan citizens on three flights to El Salvador, accusing them of being part of a transnational gang known as Tren de Aragua, which President Trump has labeled a foreign terrorist group and wartime enemy. Upon...
A tattoo resembling the logo of Real Madrid, his favorite team, appears to have been enough for the Donald Trump administration to decide that 36-year-old Venezuelan professional soccer player Jerce Reyes Barrios was a dangerous terrorist and a member of the Tren de...
Chained, dragged by security agents, forced to kneel, shaved, displayed, and locked in cells built for a few dozen inmates. At least 238 Venezuelans, labeled by the U.S. as members of the Tren de Aragua gang, were deported at dawn on Sunday to El Salvador and...
Amid the public outcry over the Trump administration’s decision to deport more than 250 Venezuelan immigrants over the weekend, El Salvador President Nayib Bukele posted a harrowing video on social media of the detainees’ arrival at his country’s...
On the night of Saturday, March 15, three planes touched down in El Salvador, carrying 261 men deported from the United States. A few dozen were Salvadoran, but most of the men were Venezuelans the Trump Administration had designated as gang members and deported, with...
