While thousands of innocent people remain incarcerated in inhumane conditions in the prisons of El Salvador, one of the most recognized gang leaders in the Central American country, Carlos Cartagena López, aka Charli de IVU, was secretly released by the government of...
It wasn’t just the money the United States would pay to house deportees in El Salvador that encouraged the Bukele government to accept such an agreement. He had a specific request: that a group of MS-13 leaders being prosecuted in the U.S. be sent to his...
El Salvador President Nayib Bukele asked the Trump administration for evidence that the 238 Venezuelans deported to his country’s maximum-security prison last month were actually part of a notorious gang, according to a report. While Bukele and President Donald Trump...
El Salvador has no “proof” that Kilmar Abrego Garcia is a member of the MS-13 gang, the country’s security minister has admitted. The US Supreme Court ordered the Trump administration to “facilitate” Mr Abrego Garcia’s return after he was mistakenly deported to El...
The government of Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele offered a 50% discount on the fee for receiving deported migrants at the Center for the Confinement of Terrorism (CECOT), his megaprison, in exchange for the United States returning nine key MS-13 gang members it...
Cristosal reported on the afternoon of Monday, April 28, 2025, that two police officers entered its facilities while it was holding a press conference jointly with the Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Foundation about a group of Venezuelans deported to the Center for...