The state of exception implemented in the country will reach three years on Thursday, March 27, and on March 30, María will also mark three years without seeing her son Mario. The last time she saw him was when he was leaving, riding in a patrol vehicle from the...
Some migrants deported from the United States to El Salvador say that, after landing in the Central American country, they were sent back again to U.S. territory. These statements emerged following the use of the Alien Enemies Act, an 18th-century statute invoked by...
Ronald Johnson, the U.S. ambassador to El Salvador from 2019 to 2021, told the U.S. Senate that, during his time in San Salvador, “I don’t doubt that it could have” been the case that Pegasus spyware was used against civil society or U.S. officials. Although on March...
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...
