Soon after he took up his post in El Salvador, U.S. Ambassador Ronald Johnson forged an unusually close relationship with the country’s president. President Trump had nominated Mr. Johnson in 2019 as his ambassador to the country shortly after the White House declared...
Mervin Jose Yamarte Fernandez, who worked day and night at a tortilla factory in Dallas, was hoping to return to Venezuela soon to be with his six-year-old daughter, his mother Mercedes Yamarte told ABC News. But that would never happen. Yamarte Fernandez is one of...
The Zambrano family had no reason to suspect that anything would go wrong when they arrived at the Charlotte Immigration and Customs Enforcement office on January 29. As asylum seekers from Venezuela who’d entered the U.S. in November 2023, their check-in was...
William Brangham: So, apart from those legal fights, the fact remains that the U.S. has sent hundreds of people to the notorious mega-prison in El Salvador known as CECOT. For more on the conditions inside that facility, we turn to Noah Bullock. He’s the...
During a press conference, the chairman of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus (CHC), Adriano Espaillat, spoke out against the detention of Salvadoran Kilmar Abrego García, who was deported to the Terrorism Confinement Center (CECOT) during mass deportations carried out...
The Movement of Victims of the Regime (MOVIR) held a protest with relatives of individuals detained under the state of exception, demanding an end to a measure that violates the population’s rights. Relatives gathered outside La Esperanza Prison, known as...
