After 14 years in Wisconsin, the last four months of it in the public eye, Yessenia Ruano is back in her native El Salvador. She’s far from the young woman who escaped harassment from gangs. She has a husband and their twin daughters with her. She has the...
Donald Trump makes no secret of his admiration for strongmen like Hungary’s Viktor Orbán or El Salvador’s Nayib Bukele. Last month, he praised Orbán’s hardline stance on immigration and urged European leaders to show more “respect” for the president; earlier this year...
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi L. Noem said in a federal court filing Friday evening that she was the one who decided Venezuelan detainees aboard two airplanes bound for El Salvador in March would be handed over to that country despite a judge’s order temporarily...
Accumulated new pension debt since 2023 reached $2,721.7 million last October following the addition of another $45 million to the tally, according to data from the Banco Central de Reserva (Central Reserve Bank). The government acquires these funds by issuing...
Samuel (a pseudonym), an educator with 25 years of service, asserts that he fled El Salvador in haste after receiving a warning from authorities at the departmental directorate of the Ministerio de Educación (Ministry of Education, MINED) in the area where he worked....
“No one notified me, neither from the prison nor from the hospital. The ones who showed up here around midnight were from the funeral home, and they told me that my son had unfortunately passed away. It was devastating for me.” This is how Manuel recounts learning of...
