As the conversation meandered throughout the day, it occurred to me to get his thoughts on El Salvador President Nayib Bukele ...

Costa Rica joins Panama and Guatemala in accepting deported migrants from the US, making it the third Central American ...

San Salvador — It takes about 90 minutes to drive from El Salvador’s capital, San Salvador, to the most notorious prison in the country. Opened in 2023, the Center for the Confinement of Terrorism, ...

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President Donald Trump signed an executive order Wednesday to bar undocumented migrants from accessing public benefits, even ...

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Even before the campaign against gangs, El Salvador’s prisons were notoriously violent and overcrowded but the crown jewel of Bukele's fight is the Terrorism Confinement Center, or CECOT ...

Last week, El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele offered to put U.S. immigration detainees and other U.S. prisoners in his country’s massive CECOT prison — even American citizens and legal ...