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...
The Trump administration denied on Sunday that it had violated a court order by deporting hundreds of Venezuelan immigrants to a prison in El Salvador over the weekend, saying that the president had broad powers to quickly expel them under an 18th-century law meant...
