As part of the deportation flights of alleged terrorists at the center of a legal and political storm, the US quietly dropped charges against a key alleged MS-13 leader and returned him to the pro-Trump leader of El Salvador. César Humberto López-Larios, an alleged...
Each day, more details emerge about the prison deal between Nayib Bukele and Donald Trump to receive deported migrants. On Monday, one day after the Salvadoran president televised the transfer of 261 alleged members of Tren de Aragua and MS-13 to the Terrorism...
The Trump administration’s decision to return a high-profile gang boss facing terrorism charges to El Salvador as part of a controversial effort to deport hundreds of Venezuelan citizens could signal the US government’s willingness to compromise its longstanding MS13...
Mrs. Delmy Cortéz swears that she sees him. Sometimes, she imagines him arriving home on his bicycle and greeting her through the living room window, or ordering tortillas with cheese. She revels in these images, until reality overshadows everything. It’s been almost...
Installing spyware, intercepting a journalist’s work and jailing them. Accusing communities of terrorism for protesting pollution or water shortages. Passing laws to discredit and imprison judges who have done their jobs. Amending legislation to put communal...
This Friday, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) stated that the third plane used last Saturday to deport Venezuelan citizens to El Salvador did not violate a court order issued minutes before its takeoff because all of its passengers had “final removal orders,” and...