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El Salvador: Prominent Human Rights Defender Arrested
(Washington, DC) – Authorities in El Salvador have arrested the prominent human rights lawyer Ruth Eleonora López, Human Rights Watch said today. On May 18, 2025, at 11 p.m., Salvadoran police ...
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El Salvador's President Bukele says he won't return Kilmar Abrego Garcia to U.S. - CBS News
El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele said "of course I'm not going to do it" about returning Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Maryland man deported to an El Salvadoran prison.
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CNN goes inside notorious El Salvador prison where US deportees are held | CNN
Men deported by the United States to El Salvador’s notorious Cecot prison are living in “the same” conditions as convicted gangsters, prison director Belarmino García said on Tuesday ...
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Flight data shows timeline of the Venezuelan deportation operation
The Trump administration's decision to deport Venezuelan migrants to El Salvador despite a judge's explicit order that the planes carrying them be turned around represents an extraordinary ...
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Opinion | The World Is Finally Seeing How Dangerous President Nayib Bukele of El Salvador Really Is - The New York Times
Mr. Rauda Zablah is an editor for El Faro. He wrote from San Salvador, El Salvador. In May 2020, during the height of Covid, El Salvador was under a military-enforced lockdown. At a news ...
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El Salvador says it shares gang intel with the US - CNN
El Salvador says it shares intelligence with the United States about gang ... CNN visited Cecot on Tuesday — the first US news organization to be allowed inside since the latest deportation flight.
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5 things to know about El Salvador | Cognoscenti - WBUR
El Salvador has been in the headlines for weeks, primarily because of an agreement its president struck with the Trump administration to accept and detain deported migrants. But the country’s ...
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Inside El Salvador's notorious CECOT mega-prison, which could soon house deportees from the U.S.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced last week that President Nayib Bukele of El Salvador had agreed to accept deportees from the U.S. convicted of crimes, and also offered to house ...
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DOJ insists El Salvador deportation flights did not violate court order - Fox News
The Justice Department is insisting that deportation flights it conducted over the weekend that sent Venezuelan nationals to El Salvador did not violate a judge's court order.
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US paying El Salvador $6M to jail Venezuela gang suspects: 'Pennies on the dollar' - New York Post
The Trump administration is paying roughly $6 million for El Salvador to jail the 238 Venezuelan gang ... Their flight closed in on its destination as a federal judge attempted to order it to ...
New York Magazine2mon
Men Deported to an El Salvador Prison Could Be Innocent - New York Magazine
Abrego Garcia is a native of El Salvador who fled gang violence and entered the United States in 2011 as a 16 ... is neither a flight risk nor a danger to the community. 6/20/2025. early and often.
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CNN goes inside notorious El Salvador prison where US deportees are held | CNN - CNN International
Men deported by the United States to El Salvador’s notorious Cecot prison are living in “the same” conditions as convicted gangsters, prison director Belarmino García said on Tuesday ...