In El Salvador, official propaganda has replaced truth with surgical efficiency. Nayib Bukele, the dictator turned influencer of repression, has built his popularity on a sinister pillar: forced disappearance as state policy. The second part of the interview published...
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...
