The United States, which has designated the gang as a terrorist organization, will support polygraph interrogations to identify those responsible for the jail break
Family members of three Salvadorans who were sent from the United States on the same flights as hundreds of Venezuelans, accused without evidence of being gang members, have gone six months without any information about them
A previously unknown report alleges that the president of El Salvador cultivated a close relationship with the former US ambassador to the country and current representative in Mexico, Ronald D. Johnson, and asked him to fire a contractor who was helping to investigate senior Salvadoran officials
The families of the two hospitalized victims and the deceased face silence from the Trump administration, which is using the attack to justify its domestic military deployment
On the outskirts of San Salvador, a real estate company is threatening to evict the residents of the Primero de Diciembre neighborhood. This pattern is playing out across the country amid a rapid wave of land privatization and gentrification
In an interview with EL PAÍS, the politician describes the state of political resistance, denounces harassment, and shares her fears about living in a country without judicial guarantees
New legislative reforms join other tough measures against any suspected gang member approved during over three years of the emergency regime in El Salvador
The US government has revived the idea of deporting the Salvadoran back to his country, where he previously suffered torture
The Trump administration is concealing the identity and fate of those deported. Advocates claim the deportations are illegal because no attempt was made to return them to their countries of origin
The government has instigated a tightening of rules of conduct as part of the war against gangs
The lawyers of the detainee — who became a symbol of Trump’s deportation policy after being mistakenly deported to his country last March — fear he could be sent to Uganda or Costa Rica
The Venezuelan stylist, one of the 252 men deported by the United States to a third nation for the first time, is trying to rebuild his life after four months of detention
The annual report criticizes Germany for its laws against far-right speech and refrains from censuring Israel’s actions in Gaza
Rwanda is the latest nation to accept citizens of other nationalities amid allegations of repression and torture at Trump’s chosen destinations
The State Department supports the measure taken by El Salvador’s Legislative Assembly, loyal to the president, which allows Washington’s main ally in Central America to remain in power
The constitutional reform that allows for indefinite re-election in El Salvador is just the president’s most recent move to cling to office
The reform, endorsed by a Legislative Assembly loyal to the president, modifies the foundations of El Salvador’s electoral rules
Although there are only about 600 judges for the more than three million cases stalled in immigration courts, the administration has sent home around 50
The artist recounts the beatings he endured, some for daring to sing, during the four months he was imprisoned in El Salvador’s Cecot
He became an activist after retiring in 2015, developing and perfecting a system to independently account for deportation planes. He is now passing the baton to a non-profit that will continue his work
Dahud Hanid Ortiz was serving a 30-year sentence for a triple crime he committed in Spain in 2016. After repatriating him, the Trump administration let him go
Migrants deported from the US to El Salvador and now returned to Venezuela tell EL PAÍS about four months of continuous punishment and total uncertainty about their fate
Dahud Hanid Ortiz was serving 30 years in a Venezuelan prison for a triple homicide he committed in Spain in 2016. But the State Department applauds that there are no more Americans ‘wrongfully detained’ in the Latin American country
Lawyers for Daniel Lozano-Camargo, identified as ‘Cristian’ in court documents, claim the youth was used as a ‘pawn’ in the exchange between the three countries
Trump’s policies have destroyed the traditional map of migration. Arrests of people in transit on their way to the northern border have dropped to historic lows. Now families are returning to their countries of origin or adapting to life in Mexico
In response to UN inquiries, Salvadoran authorities denied past US claims and stated that they have only facilitated the use of their infrastructure
The journalist was arrested on June 14 while covering anti-Trump protests and was placed in deportation proceedings a few days later. He was released on bail this week but was immediately arrested again on new charges
