Salvadoran Politics

US homeland security chief visits Salvadoran jail holding deported Venezuelans The Raw Story23:18El Salvador US Latin America

Kristi Noem visits “Worst-of-the-worst criminals” prison in El Salvador, meets president who charged U.S. “Very low fee” 2paragraphs21:16El Salvador US Latin America

Watch: DHS Secretary Noem tours El Salvador prison holding deported Venezuelans PBS Online22:53El Salvador US Latin America

DHS Secretary Noem tours El Salvador prison holding deported illegal aliens The Daily Signal23:11El Salvador US Latin America

Here are the Venezuelans deported by the U.S. to El Salvador CBS News20:02El Salvador US Central America

Trump administration doubles down on stand on deportations to El Salvador CBS News10:15El Salvador US Central America

Trump floats idea of convicted Tesla arsonists serving sentences in El Salvador prisons:… Fox News12:22El Salvador Donald Trump Tesla, Inc.

'Delusional' Trump threatens to send Tesla vandals to prison for 20 years... in El Salvador Common Dreams11:31El Salvador Donald Trump Tesla, Inc.

Trump official to visit mega-jail holding deported Venezuelans BBC12:44El Salvador Central America Latin America

The Trump Administration’s recent removals to El Salvador violate the prohibition on transfer to torture Just Security13:13El Salvador Central America Latin America

Lawyers: Innocent Venezuelans were deported to brutal El Salvador prison because of tattoos Tucson Sentinel18:07El Salvador Venezuela US

Gay Venezuelan asylum-seeker ‘disappeared’ to Salvadoran mega-prison under Trump order, Maddow reveals Advocate.com18:27El Salvador Venezuela US

The transversal spirit of the feminist strike The Los Angeles Review of Books15:15El Salvador Latin America US

Tracking Trump and Latin America: Migration—Trump deports Venezuelans to El Salvador Americas Society/Council of the Americas21:01El Salvador Latin America US

El Salvador Supreme Court to hear defense of jailed Venezuelans deported from US KELO TV19:50El Salvador Venezuela Central America

Catholics powerless as 238 Venezuelan migrants deported by Trump are jailed in El Salvador Catholic Herald10:41Nayib Bukele El Salvador Donald Trump

Catholics lament their own impotence to intervene in case of Venezuelans deported by Trump Crux10:11Nayib Bukele El Salvador Donald Trump

Venezuela-hired lawyers ask Salvadoran court for migrants' freedom The Raw Story01:12El Salvador Venezuela US

Venezuela-hired lawyers file petition in El Salvador aimed at freeing Venezuelans deported by US Bowen Island Undercurrent21:37El Salvador Venezuela US

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In the last 2 hours

At El Salvador mega-jail, Trump official tells migrants 'do not come' RTL Today23:53 26-Mar-25

US homeland security chief visits Salvadoran jail holding deported Venezuelans The Raw Story23:18 26-Mar-25

DHS Secretary Noem Tours El Salvador Prison Holding Deported Illegal Aliens The Daily Signal23:11 26-Mar-25

In the last 4 hours

DHS Secretary Kristi Noem tours the terrorist confinement center in El Salvador Fox News23:02 26-Mar-25

U.S. sent Venezuelan man with pending political asylum case to El Salvador mega prison Miami Herald22:59 26-Mar-25

Watch: DHS Secretary Noem tours El Salvador prison holding deported Venezuelans PBS Online22:53 26-Mar-25

Kristi Noem Visits “Worst-of-the-Worst Criminals” Prison in El Salvador, Meets President Who Charged U.S. “Very Low Fee” 2paragraphs21:16 26-Mar-25

In the last 6 hours

DHS secretary set to visit infamous migrant prison in El Salvador ABC News20:55 26-Mar-25

Salvadoran prison holding deported Venezuelans has been criticized for alleged abuses ABC News19:21 26-Mar-25

In the last 8 hours

Homeland Security secretary visiting El Salvador prison where deported Venezuelans are held Los Angeles Times18:59 26-Mar-25

Kristi Noem’s Latin America Tour Signals Trump’s Bold Immigration Crackdown The Rio Times18:46 26-Mar-25

“You’re Here Because of Your Tattoos” Mother Jones18:12 26-Mar-25

Marco Rubio Tweeting About Prisoner Numbers “Hard to Square” With Denial of Judge Request, Says Supreme Court Lawyer 2paragraphs17:42 26-Mar-25

Yesterday

Judge fighting Trump over El Salvador deportations assigned to lawsuit over Signal chat leak Fox News15:56 26-Mar-25

El Salvador key to understanding right wing plans here and abroad People's World15:26 26-Mar-25

Noem to tour El Salvador prison housing alleged gang members deported from U.S. The Washington Times14:38 26-Mar-25

The Missing Due Process for Gang Allegations Just Security13:07 26-Mar-25

Trump official to visit mega-jail holding deported Venezuelans BBC12:44 26-Mar-25

Noem to tour notorious El Salvador prison Fox News12:21 26-Mar-25

DHS Secretary Noem Visiting El Salvador Prison NewsMax12:03 26-Mar-25

Trump administration doubles down on stand on deportations to El Salvador CBS News10:15 26-Mar-25

What the Hundreds of Venezuelans Trump Sent to El Salvador Are Up Against Mother Jones10:04 26-Mar-25

Secretary Noem to visit El Salvador prison holding deported criminals Fox News09:50 26-Mar-25

DHS secretary set to visit migrant prison on trip that includes stops in El Salvador ABC News09:29 26-Mar-25

DHS Secretary To Visit El Salvador Prison Holding Illegal Aliens Tipp Insights08:25 26-Mar-25

El Salvador, Paraguay partner on digital asset regulation CoinGeek06:13 26-Mar-25

US expelling Venezuelans to El Salvador endangers lives: Amnesty International Jurist04:46 26-Mar-25

The choreography of fascism The New European01:59 26-Mar-25

How El Salvador's Strongman Bukele Inspired Trump The Bulwark01:05 26-Mar-25

In the last 7 days

Tren de Aragua: Que sabemos sobre la pandilla venezolana que Trump designó como terrorista PolitiFact21:46 25-Mar-25

DHS Secretary Noem announces that she will travel to El Salvador to visit prison ABC News20:47 25-Mar-25

The Triumph of a Doctrine of Cruelty in El Salvador NPR20:04 25-Mar-25

Trump’s Revival of the Alien Enemies Act Is at the Heart of the New McCarthyism Truthout19:44 25-Mar-25

Trump officials won’t answer questions about deportation flights The Independent17:06 25-Mar-25

Homan says ICE ‘confident’ all Venezuelans deported to El Salvador were gang members The Washington Times16:20 25-Mar-25

Media Advisory: Secretary Noem Announces Trip to El Salvador, Colombia, and Mexico U.S. Department of Homeland Security (Press Release)16:03 25-Mar-25

Venezuelan migrants deported by the U.S. ended up in a Salvadoran prison. This is their legal… The Washington Times15:53 25-Mar-25

Why El Salvador Is Doing Trump’s Dirty Work Slate10:25 25-Mar-25

El Salvador’s Bitcoin reversal: A necessary retreat or a missed opportunity? Ynet News08:34 25-Mar-25

Unlawful Expulsions to El Salvador Endanger Lives Amid Ongoing State of Emergency Amnesty International (Press Release)07:30 25-Mar-25

Photojournalist on documenting Venezuelan migrants flown to a prison in El Salvador ABC News02:00 25-Mar-25

Nazis were treated better than Venezuelans deported by Trump, judge says at hearing AsiaOne01:49 25-Mar-25

Venezuela-hired lawyers ask Salvadoran court for migrants' freedom The Raw Story01:12 25-Mar-25

The Overlooked Legal Problem at the Heart of Trump’s So-Called Deportations to El Salvador Slate22:14 24-Mar-25

‘Y’all could’ve picked me up’: Judge rips Trump admin over deportations without due process,… Law & Crime21:38 24-Mar-25

Venezuela-hired lawyers file petition in El Salvador aimed at freeing Venezuelans deported by US Bowen Island Undercurrent21:37 24-Mar-25

Ambassador Johnson: “I don’t doubt that Pegasus could have been used in El Salvador” ElFaro20:51 24-Mar-25

The Story Behind the Day Bukele Stormed the Salvadoran Assembly ElFaro20:51 24-Mar-25

El Salvador Supreme Court to hear defense of jailed Venezuelans deported from US KELO TV19:50 24-Mar-25

US Homeland Security secretary to visit El Salvador's prison holding deported gang members Anadolu Agency15:58 24-Mar-25

IMF now officially tracks Bitcoin in cross-border finance — just weeks after warning El Salvador to scale back crypto.news15:05 24-Mar-25

DHS Secretary Kristi Noem to Visit El Salvador Prison Holding Deported Illegal Aliens The Daily Signal14:36 24-Mar-25

Cathie Wood to Inaugurate El Salvador’s CUBO AI Program as Nation Pushes Tech Growth DeFi Planet13:00 24-Mar-25

Catholics powerless as 238 Venezuelan migrants deported by Trump are jailed in El Salvador Catholic Herald10:41 24-Mar-25

Catholics lament their own impotence to intervene in case of Venezuelans deported by Trump Crux10:11 24-Mar-25

Cathie Wood to lead El Salvador’s AI education program Cryptopolitan08:23 24-Mar-25

The power of redemption The Times of Malta05:38 24-Mar-25

Noem to visit El Salvador prison that took in hundred of deported criminals: 'Clear message' Fox News23:10 23-Mar-25

‘Deceived’ Venezuelans protest US deportations to El Salvador Macau Business11:55 23-Mar-25

They were called gang members and deported. Families say their only crime was having tattoos Los Angeles Times10:05 23-Mar-25

Return of High-Profile MS-13 Leader To El Salvador Could Suggest Trump Administration Prioritizes Mass Deportations:… Latin Times07:37 23-Mar-25

Venezuela agrees to again accept US deportation flights The New Arab16:22 22-Mar-25

Trump floats idea of convicted Tesla arsonists serving sentences in El Salvador prisons:… Fox News12:22 22-Mar-25

'Delusional' Trump Threatens to Send Tesla Vandals to Prison for 20 Years... in El Salvador Common Dreams11:31 22-Mar-25

Video: Unanswered Questions on the Venezuelans Jailed in El Salvador ElFaro00:53 22-Mar-25

Trump Threatens Tesla Vandals with Prison in El Salvador Political Wire21:50 21-Mar-25

Trump suggests 'terrorist thugs' destroying Teslas should go to prison in El Salvador Just The News21:42 21-Mar-25

Watch: ACLU attorney speaks after federal court hearing on deportation flights to El Salvador PBS Online21:22 21-Mar-25

Latin America Countries Face Deportation Dilemma Foreign Policy20:52 21-Mar-25

Stories of Resistance: Monsignor Óscar Romero, El Salvador’s Bishop of the Poor The Real News Network19:42 21-Mar-25

Trump Puts #TakeDownTesla Vandals on Notice, Says the ‘Sick Terrorist Thugs’ Should Get 20 Year Sentence in El… American Greatness19:23 21-Mar-25

Canadian Lawmaker Goes on Anti-Trump Rant, Says Nationals Are Now At Risk Of Being 'Deported to Some El Salvadoran… Latin Times18:49 21-Mar-25

Gay Venezuelan asylum-seeker ‘disappeared’ to Salvadoran mega-prison under Trump order, Maddow reveals Advocate.com18:27 21-Mar-25

Lawyers: Innocent Venezuelans were deported to brutal El Salvador prison because of tattoos Tucson Sentinel18:07 21-Mar-25

20 Years In Jail If You Vandalize A Tesla, Says President Trump Outlook India17:03 21-Mar-25

Trump Threatens Tesla Vandals with 20 Years in El Salvador Super Prison. The National Pulse17:03 21-Mar-25

Podcast: Bukele and Musk Bond over Attacks on U.S. Judiciary ElFaro15:52 21-Mar-25

Trump Fantasizes About Sending American Tesla Vandals to Prison in El Salvador Rolling Stone15:21 21-Mar-25

Trump's Lawless Deportation Machine Should Concern Every American The Nation14:54 21-Mar-25

Are Trump’s Deportations to El Salvador Just the Beginning? Foreign Policy13:55 21-Mar-25

Trump suggests Tesla vandals be jailed in El Salvador RTL Today12:50 21-Mar-25

Trump floats sending 'thug' Tesla vandals to infamous El Salvador prison The Raw Story11:58 21-Mar-25

This Is Fascism New York Magazine11:40 21-Mar-25

What the Venezuelans Deported to El Salvador Experienced TIME11:05 21-Mar-25

Shattered by a perfect storm: How Trump’s cuts are crippling journalism beyond the United States Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism07:47 21-Mar-25

Trump administration response on Venezuela deportations 'woefully insufficient', judge says AsiaOne06:13 21-Mar-25

Why the men sent to El Salvador's mega-prison may never make it out NBC San Diego00:44 21-Mar-25

Colombian-Venezuelan migrant held in El Salvador has no ties to feared gang, wife says KELO TV00:23 21-Mar-25

What to Know About Deported Venezuelans TIME00:21 21-Mar-25

Trump threatens judge pressing DOJ for answers over El Salvador deportations NPR22:04 20-Mar-25

Human Rights Watch declaration on prison conditions in El Salvador for the J.G.G. v. Trump case Human Rights Watch21:37 20-Mar-25

Murdoch v. Murdoch: Fox News goes to bat for the president while NY Post and WSJ urge caution and rule of law Media Matters for America20:48 20-Mar-25

Venezuelan Professional Goaltender Deported to El Salvador Prison, Stunning Family Back Home Drop Site News20:06 20-Mar-25

Oopsie! Is El Salvador the future of Trump's America? You bet your Bukele WLRN20:02 20-Mar-25

Here are the Venezuelans deported by the U.S. to El Salvador CBS News20:02 20-Mar-25

Rubio praises deportation to ‘excellent prison system’ known for abuse Daily Kos20:01 20-Mar-25

Man Deported to El Salvador Because of Soccer Tattoo Political Wire18:10 20-Mar-25

Asylum seekers deported to El Salvador for their tattoos, lawyers say The Independent17:56 20-Mar-25

Could US Deportations Compromise Trump Administration’s MS13 Crackdown? InSight Crime16:54 20-Mar-25

Mum thought son was coming home but spotted him in El Salvador mega prison on TV The Mirror15:49 20-Mar-25

The Transversal Spirit of the Feminist Strike The Los Angeles Review of Books15:15 20-Mar-25

Disappeared: U.S. Sends Venezuelan LGBTQ Asylum Seeker to El Salvador’s Version of Guantánamo Democracy Now!14:37 20-Mar-25

The Horror Inside the Salvadoran Prisons Where Trump Is Sending Migrants Foreign Policy14:33 20-Mar-25

The Trump Administration’s Recent Removals to El Salvador Violate the Prohibition on Transfer to Torture Just Security13:13 20-Mar-25

Inside Trump's deportation flights to El Salvador at heart of legal battle ABC News01:29 20-Mar-25

Will Trump Send US Citizens To El Salvador? – OpEd Eurasia Review00:13 20-Mar-25

In the last month

Human Trafficking by the State: Trump Sends 238 Venezuelans to El Salvador’s Mega-jail Left Voice21:51 19-Mar-25

Venezuelans watch in horror as Trump sends family to El Salvador Digital Journal21:19 19-Mar-25

Sean Hannity: “The president of El Salvador, he actually said that the U.S. is facing a judicial coup. He's not that… Media Matters for America (Video)21:06 19-Mar-25

Families of deported Venezuelans are distraught their loved ones were sent to El Salvador NBC San Diego16:53 19-Mar-25

President Trump’s Well-Deserved Chastisement by Chief Justice Roberts The Future of Freedom Foundation16:42 19-Mar-25

Trump administration admits 'many' people being deported to 'world's worst prison' have no criminal record UNILAD13:04 19-Mar-25

El Salvador's Bukele weighs in after Trump's call to impeach judge: 'The U.S. is facing a… Fox News11:02 19-Mar-25

Are the people who Trump sent to a Salvadoran prison actually gang members? Popular Information10:36 19-Mar-25

Trump defies court orders to dump Venezuelans in Salvadoran slave jail Public Notice10:27 19-Mar-25

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