Franco Caraballo called his wife Friday night, crying and panicked. Hours earlier, the 26-year-old barber and dozens of other Venezuelan migrants at a federal detention facility in Texas were dressed in white clothes, handcuffed and taken onto a plane. He had no idea...
El Salvador President Nayib Bukele framed his offer to house “dangerous American criminals” and “criminals from any country” as a win-win for all. The fee for transferring detainees to a newly built Salvadoran mega-prison “would be relatively low” for the U.S. but...
“We’re naïve about the atrocity that’s happening,” 44-year-old Myrelis Casique López tells BBC Mundo from her home in a poor neighborhood of Maracay, Venezuela. She thought her son would be deported to Caracas from Texas, United States, on Saturday, but he ended up in...
Venezuela said Monday that it will not rest until it can rescue its citizens from El Salvador, adding that it will denounce the United States for crimes against humanity after Washington sent over 200 deportees to the Central american country’s mega-prisons. “What is...
Shortly after the Trump administration deported hundreds of Venezuelans to El Salvador this weekend, the Salvadoran president, Nayib Bukele, posted a three-minute video on social media. It featured shackled men being marched off a plane over a dramatic electronic...
The Trump administration’s decision to deport Venezuelan migrants to El Salvador despite a judge’s explicit order that the planes carrying them be turned around represents an extraordinary escalation in the president’s challenge to the U.S....
