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...
El Salvador President Nayib Bukele framed his offer to house “dangerous American criminals” and “criminals from any country” as a win-win for all. The fee for transferring detainees to a newly built Salvadoran mega-prison “would be relatively low” for the U.S. but...
“We’re naïve about the atrocity that’s happening,” 44-year-old Myrelis Casique López tells BBC Mundo from her home in a poor neighborhood of Maracay, Venezuela. She thought her son would be deported to Caracas from Texas, United States, on Saturday, but he ended up in...
Twenty-three MS-13 members, among them two leaders charged with terrorism-related acts in the United States, were sent by the Donald Trump administration to El Salvador in the early hours of March 16, according to Secretary of State Marco Rubio. A large-scale security...
