Costa Rica looks to El Salvador's gang crackdown for path to stopping violence
Costa Rica's security minister toured El Salvador's maximum-security gang prison on Friday as part of his review of the ...
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El Salvador under “State of Emergency” due to gang violence
The Parliament of El Salvador Sunday agreed to validate a State of Emergency nationwide after 62 people died Saturday in clashes between gangs, it was announced. The measure, approved by 67 votes ...
Judge orders government to return Maryland man deported in 'error' to El Salvador
A judge on Friday ordered the government to facilitate the return of Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, the Maryland man who was ...
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Nearly 34,000 arrested under El Salvador's state of emergency
Around 34,000 people have been placed under arrest thanks to the state of emergency in force in El Salvador since March 27, it was reported Monday as Congress is set to agree on yet another ...
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Bukele’s ‘false positives’: Teenagers accused of being gang members, based on a 10-second video
A legal reform in El Salvador allows minors to go to adult prisons. Since the state of emergency began three years ago, more ...
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The invisible exile of MS-13 in Mexico
In the last three years, 42 members of the Salvadoran gang have been arrested in Mexico, one of the refuges from Nayib Bukele ...
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem visits El Salvador prison where deported Venezuelans are held
US Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem on Wednesday visited the high-security El Salvador prison where Venezuelans who ...
Venezuelan migrants deported by the US ended up in a Salvadoran prison. This is their legal status
The U.S. government used an 18th-century wartime law to deport nearly 300 Venezuelan immigrants to El Salvador, where they ...
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Mass Incarceration and Democratic Deterioration: Three Years of the State of Exception in El Salvador
On March 27, 2022, at the request of President Nayib Bukele, the Legislative Assembly passed a state of exception, limiting ...
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More alleged Tren de Aragua gang members transferred to El Salvador amid legal fight
Administration officials have called for ignoring court orders and continuing the expanded deportation efforts.
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Homeland Security Secretary Noem visits the El Salvador prison where deported Venezuelans are held
For three years, El Salvador has been operating under a state of emergency that suspends fundamental rights as Bukele wages an all-out assault on the country's powerful street gangs. During that ...
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Homeland Security Secretary visits El Salvador prison where deported Venezuelans are held
For three years, El Salvador has been operating under a state of emergency that suspends fundamental rights as Bukele wages an all-out assault on the country’s powerful street gangs. During that ...