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Searching for Devils at CECOT
Who are the devils today, and who gets to decide? El Salvador answered by pouring 236,000 square meters of concrete and steel ...
A California lawmaker is introducing a bill to stop funding El Salvador’s notorious mega-prison
The legislation highlights just how central a role El Salvador has taken in President Donald Trump’s sweeping immigration ...
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Relatives of deported Venezuelans arrive in El Salvador and demand ‘proof of life’ from Bukele
The delegation has gone to various judicial and government agencies without receiving a response, and plans to ask the Pope ...
‘We are under a dictatorship.’ Six years into his rule, El Salvador’s Nayib Bukele tightens his grip
Nayib Bukele, the self-declared “world’s coolest dictator,” will mark six years as El Salvador’s president on Sunday, a ...
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The Roots of Bukele’s Gulag
The Terrorism Confinement Center was designed to be a black hole. When Nayib Bukele’s flagship “megaprison”—known as CECOT, ...
With Trump as ally, El Salvador’s President ramps up crackdown on dissent
El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele is intensifying his crackdown on dissent, a move observers suggest has been emboldened ...
Inside Donald Trump's Mass-Deportation Operation
He ushers a group of foreign visitors inside CECOT’s Module 8, a unit unlike others at the sprawling facility situated at the base of a volcano. This one holds 238 Venezuelan nationals who were ...
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Former Top Salvadoran Lawmaker Reportedly Awaiting Deportation From U.S. With Bukele's Alleged Deals With Gangs Under Scrutiny
The former president of El Salvador's national assembly, reportedly familiar with gang negotiations, is awaiting deportation ...
'Disingenuous': Judge orders Trump admin to reveal its deal with El Salvador after immigrant objects to his jailing in notorious CECOT prison
A request for jurisdictional discovery from a Venezuelan immigrant locked up in a notorious Salvadoran prison has been ...
Will Nayib Bukele sweep his critics into prison along with the gangs?
To fully kneecap those pesky NGOs trying to hold him accountable, Bukele’s supporters in the Salvadoran Legislature passed a ...
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"No More Margaritas Under Custody," El Salvador President Jokes About Kilmar Abrego Garcia's U.S. Return
El Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele, who is holding more than 200 migrants sent from the U.S. federal government in ...
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White House Crypto Chief Bo Hines Met With El Salvador’s Bukele to Discuss Bitcoin
Bitcoin Office Director Stacy Herbert said "extraordinary things" could happen for the United States and El Salvador as a ...