El Salvador, Venezuela
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A labor rights group in El Salvador has asked the Supreme Court to strike down a controversial “foreign agents” law.
After 125 days in silence, detained inside an El Salvador concrete fortress built to disappear people, Andry Hernández Romero is finally home in Venezuela, alleging he was tortured, sexually abused, and denied food while detained under a Trump administration deportation order that erased him from society.
El Salvador's Bitcoin reserve only helps the government and not normal residents of the Central American country, according to one BTC advocate.
CHARLES TOWN — An El Salvador native in the United States illegally was sentenced to at least 15 years in jail this week in the murder of a 23-year-old woman. David Antonio Calderon was indicted on one count of first-degree murder and one count of concealment of a deceased human body in the death of
Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran native living Maryland, was mistakenly deported in March to a mega-prison in his home country of El Salvador -- despite a 2019 court order barring his deportation to that country due to fear of persecution -- after the Trump administration claimed he was a member of the criminal gang MS-13,
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The fiercest voices of dissent against President Nayib Bukele have long feared a widespread crackdown. They weathered police raids on their homes, watched their friends being thrown into jail and jumped between safe houses so they can stay in El Salvador.