Salvadorean President Nayib Bukele said his administration is willing to take in "only convicted criminals" in exchange for a fee ...

The maximum-security facility is about 45 miles (72 kilometers) southeast of the capital city of San Salvador and is known as CECOT, a Spanish acronym that translates to “terrorism confinement center.

SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador — The Trump administration and the ... It opened a year later in the town of Tecoluca, about 72 kilometers (45 miles) east of the capital. Able to hold 40,000 inmates, the ...

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 incarcerated ...

Onlookers gather at the scene of a homicide in downtown San Salvador, El Salvador’s capital. Violence has driven hundreds of Salvadorans to leave each day for the United States, where they make ...

Seven other young people, who were also being prosecuted for alleged links to gangs, were acquitted by the court in the country’s capital San Salvador. The youths, aged 12 to 15, were detained ...

extraordinary migratory agreement anywhere in the world,” in remarks from the capital city of San Salvador. “We can send them and he will put them in his jails,” the secretary of state said ...

On Monday, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced during a visit to El Salvador that Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele ...

Bukele made the offer during a three-hour discussion with Rubio at his Lake Coatepeque residence outside the nation’s capital of San Salvador on Monday. “We have offered the United States of ...