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Trump Officials Tour Salvadoran Prison Housing Deported Venezuelans

US Secretary of Homeland Security, Kristi Noem, visited the maximum-security prison in El Salvador on Wednesday where more than 200 Venezuelans deported by Donald...

El Salvador Parents Beg Bukele to Stop Sending Minors to Adult Prisons

Parents with children in juvenile detention in El Salvador are calling on gang-busting President Nayib Bukele to scrap a plan criticized by rights groups...

Trial Date Set for Murder of Dutch Journalists During El Salvador War

The final phase of the trial against a former Defense Minister of El Salvador and two colonels for their alleged responsibility in the murder...

US President Invokes Wartime Law to Send Criminal Gang Members to El Salvador

El Salvador imprisoned 238 suspected members of the Tren de Aragua criminal gang and 23 members of the Mara Salvatrucha gang in a maximum-security...

El Salvador Closes Bitcoin-Funded Pet Hospital After Welfare Scandal

The President of El Salvador, Nayib Bukele, announced this Saturday the closure of the country's only pet hospital, which was created with funds from...

Amnesty Denounces Detention of Human Rights Activist in El Salvador

Amnesty International (AI) on Wednesday issued a strong call to Salvadoran authorities, demanding they ensure the "physical integrity" of human rights activist Fidel Zavala,...

El Salvador Continues Bitcoin Purchases Despite New Legal Status Change

The President of El Salvador, Nayib Bukele, assured on Tuesday that the country "will not stop" and will continue buying bitcoin for its strategic...

Dead Rivers Alert Growing Environmental Crisis as Mining Returns to El Salvador

The San Sebastián River no longer has fish. The contaminated water it receives from an old gold mine killed them all. Now that mining...
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El Salvador Journalists Warn of Rising Repression Under Bukele Government

The main journalists' association in El Salvador denounced on Sunday the increase in "persecution" against media outlets and human rights defenders by the government...

Raising Kids in Costa Rica: An Expat Family Story

I remember when I was young, sometime around second grade, I was in the laundry room with my dad, and I had asked him...

China Donates 100 Buses to Nicaragua Amid Ongoing International Sanctions

China donated 100 buses to Nicaragua on Saturday, in a new installment of aid to the government of Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo, which...