El Salvador

The Trump administration deported 300 Venezuelan migrants to El Salvador, taking them to a mega-prison system accused of violating inmates' human rights

Families of Venezuelans sent to El Salvador dispute Trump administration's claims linking deportees to the Tren de Aragua gang based solely on tattoos.

Alt-rock band Semisonic has responded harshly to the Trump administration using their hit song, 'Closing Time' in a video posted on X to mock deportees

President Donald Trump's appointed "border czar" Tom Homan granted an interview to Fox News on Monday covering the deportation of over 200 Venezuelans to El Salvador.

Lawyer Lindsay Toczylowski took to social media to detail how her group's client, a Venezuelan asylum seeker, was "disappeared" Sunday by the Trump admin.

Salvadorean President Nayib Bukele posted a video showing the rough treatment received by alleged members of Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua upon their arrival to the country and its infamous prison

El Salvador is unfazed by concerns around its Bitcoin reserve following a recent agreement with the IMF to concede some of its policies to secure a loan, but there are questions on the Bukele government's "contradictory" actions.

The U.S. Secretary of State thanked El Salvadorian President Nayib Bukele for taking in more than 200 alleged gang members in its 40,000-inmate prison for the "low cost" of $6 million.

Amid mass deportation hurdles, Trump Administration leverages El Salvador's mega-Prison to ease domestic strain

The family of Francisco Quintanilla is suing La Paz Funeral Services for sending them the wrong body for an open-casket funeral in in their home country of El Salvador.

El Salvador's San Sebastian river has no fish. The runoff from a gold mine upstream, already shuttered two decades ago, has long killed them all.

Nayib Bukele is under fire among Bitcoiners and prominent figures in the crypto industry after he insisted that El Salvador will not halt its strategic Bitcoin reserve even if the IMF's funding deal clearly states that the country is prohibited from buying $BTC throughout the funding program's duration.

From Mexico's most ruthless drug cartels to Central America's most notorious street gang, these are the eight drug trafficking groups being designated terrorist organizations by US President Donald Trump's administration.

A total of eight criminal groups rooted in Latin America are expected to be designated as foreign terrorist organizations by Secretary of State Marco Rubio as early as this week

Bukele offered to house violent U.S. and migrant criminals in his prison system, in "extraordinary" gesture. But experts doubt the move would hold up in court.

El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele, who has carried out a sweeping crackdown on crime, offered the use of a maximum-security prison, Latin America's largest, when he met Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Monday.

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

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio confirmed that the deal includes an offer from Bukele to house dangerous criminals who are American citizens or legal residents, within Salvadoran prisons.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio is planning on discussing the matter during his visit to the country in the coming days

Located 110 kilometers (68 miles) east of the capital San Salvador, Berlin has emerged as a rival to El Zonte, the surf town nicknamed "Bitcoin Beach."

Built to house El Salvador's most dangerous gangsters, conditions at the maximum-security "Terrorism Confinement Center" (CECOT) are slammed by rights groups as inhumane.

Donald Trump is pushing his "America First" ideology on foreign policy, making some Latin American countries open to striking deals on immigration.

Such deportations are key for the Trump administration plans as many migrants targeted hail from countries who have shown reluctance to receive them

Leading El Salvador from 2009 to 2014, Funes was a bespectacled former TV journalist who modeled himself on moderate leftist leaders, despite heading a party of former Marxist rebels.

The Biden administration cited the "severe humanitarian emergency" taking place in Venezuela as a motive to extend TPS status

Texas authorities rescued two young migrant girls who were abandoned by smugglers at the southern border carrying only a note with an address and phone number.

El Salvador had to concede to some of the IMF's conditions to reach an agreement with the UN financial agency for a massive loan that could help boost its ailing economy, but it clarified Sunday that it will not give up on its Bitcoin strategic reserve.

The announcement came after the Central American nation's government reached a $1.4 billion loan deal with the International Monetary Fund that addressed its controversial embrace of bitcoin.

The transition team has reached out to the country through back channels. It is unclear whether the Bukele government will be open to the possibility

El Salvador was the first country in the world to ban the mining of metals in 2017, warning of the harmful effects of the chemicals used in mining, like cyanide and mercury.