On March 15, the U.S. government deported 238 male Venezuelan citizens on three flights to El Salvador, accusing them of being part of a transnational gang known as Tren de Aragua, which President Trump has labeled a foreign terrorist group and wartime enemy. Upon...
A tattoo resembling the logo of Real Madrid, his favorite team, appears to have been enough for the Donald Trump administration to decide that 36-year-old Venezuelan professional soccer player Jerce Reyes Barrios was a dangerous terrorist and a member of the Tren de...
In a new production staged with cinematic ambitions, Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele presented another video of his mega-prison to the world last Sunday: the Centro de Confinamiento para el Terrorismo (CECOT) (Terrorism Confinement Center). In the footage, dozens of...
The music builds and the men are pushed into armored vehicles and taken to a large prison. Their heads are shaved and they are moved in organized lines into large cells — all while the camera rolls. The video features Venezuelan migrants recently deported from the...
Some were placed into armored vehicles, others in buses. All were transferred to the Centro de Confinamiento del Terrorismo (CECOT), the mega-prison symbolic of the Nayib Bukele government’s fight against gangs, where their hair and beards were shaved, their...
El Salvador accepted hundreds of third-country deportees from the U.S. over the weekend, expanding its president’s controversial philosophy on security and civil liberties beyond just Salvadoran citizens. The video, set to a crescendo of drums, shows soldiers running...
