The US government said Wednesday it has located a man wrongly deported to El Salvador and whose whereabouts were previously ...

For El Salvador’s president, Nayib Bukele, the rewards appear to have included, among other things, a White House visit and ...

He has temporarily blocked Donald Trump’s birthright citizenship executive order by certifying a class action to cover babies born in all 50 states. This marks the next stage of a messy legal fight ...

The U.S. has exclusive jurisdiction and responsibility over migrants Trump sent to prison in El Salvador, according to ...

What is the CECOT? Bukele ordered the mega-prison built as he began his campaign against El Salvador’s gangs in March 2022. It opened a year later in the town of Tecoluca, about 45 miles east of ...

SANTA ANA, El Salvador — The sprawling penitentiary where Kilmar Abrego Garcia was last known to be held offers a sharp contrast to the supermax mega-prison to which he was first deported.

Last week, El Salvador’s president Nayib Bukele posted a typically divisive video on Twitter. To the sound of thrilling fast-paced music, it showed hundreds of detainees being transferred to a ...

El Salvador's CECOT prison, where over 200 alleged Venezuelan gang members deported from the U.S. are being held, has been criticized for alleged human rights violations.

El Salvador’s president, Nayib Bukele, has offered to house in Salvadoran prisons U.S.-deported immigrants of any nationality — even U.S. citizens with criminal convictions. The offer is a ...

In 2023, Spanish media outlet El País described El Salvador’s prisons as “a hell,” and a 2023 report issued by the U.S. State Department describes “harsh and life-threatening prison ...

El Salvador’s Cecot mega-prison was notorious long before the Trump administration’s recent decision to deport hundreds of alleged Venezuelan gang members there.. The Center for Terrorism ...

In this photo provided by El Salvador's presidential press guards, prison guards transfer deportees from the U.S., alleged to be Venezuelan gang members, to the Terrorism Confinement Center in ...