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The Latest Breaking News from El Salvador

El Salvador Offers To House U.S. Criminals

El Salvador offers to house U.S. criminals to ease prison system burden, sparking legal concerns.

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Trump Backs Jailing Americans In El Salvador If Has 'Legal Right

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.

Latin Times

Trump would be ‘very happy’ to send U.S. citizens to El Salvador’s prisons. It’s ‘incredibly illegal’

Civil rights groups and legal experts slam ‘unconstitutional’ threat to human rights

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El Salvador wants to detain deportees, including U.S. citizens, in notorious 'tropical gulag' terror prison

Facility has been accused of inhumane conditions, torture, and arbitrary detention

The Independent UK

El Salvador’s offer to take in US deportees and violent criminals is unlike any other migrant deal

El Salvador has offered to take in people deported from the U.S. for entering the country illegally as well as the country’s violent criminals — even if they’re American citizens

The Independent UK

Trump Backs Jailing Americans In El Salvador If Has 'Legal Right'

President Donald Trump on Tuesday backed an offer by El Salvador to take in prisoners -- including US citizens -- despite clear legal problems with such an outsourcing under American law.

International Business Times

Trump administration says it has begun deporting migrants to Guantánamo Bay

Press secretary says at least two deportation flights to Cuban base of undocumented immigrants ‘under way’

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What to know about El Salvador's mega-prison after Trump deal to send people there

The Trump administration and the president of El Salvador said they struck a deal allowing the U.S. to ship detained migrants and imprisoned criminals to a mega-prison there

The Independent UK

Soldiers from El Salvador join U.N.-backed mission in Haiti to combat gang violence

Seventy soldiers from El Salvador arrived in Haiti on Tuesday to support a U.N.-backed mission led by Kenyan police to help fight gangs that killed thousands of people last year and control much of the capital

The Independent UK

El Salvador offers to hold deportees and incarcerated US citizens in its jails

Human rights groups alarmed as Marco Rubio, US secretary of state, meets with Nayib Bukele during overseas trip

The Guardian - US

Secretary Of State Rubio Focuses On Immigration In Costa Rica

Secretary of State Rubio addresses immigration, USAID changes, and El Salvador's offer to host U.S. deportees.

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El Salvador Offers To House Violent U.S. Criminals and Deportees

Yet its penitentiary centers are already running at over 300 percent capacity.

Reason

Inside El Salvador's 'Mega-Prison' Where The Trump Administration Could Send Convicted Criminals

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

Latin Times

El Salvador’s president agrees to take U.S. prison inmates after meeting with Marco Rubio

Nayib Bukele offered to house ‘dangerous American criminals’ and outsource part of the U.S.’s prison system for a ‘relatively low’ fee

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El Salvador offers to jail US convicts in ‘unprecedented’ proposal

President Bukele’s proposal includes imprisoning US criminals in El Salvador’s largest prison for a fee.

International Business Times

Rubio Secures Unprecedented Deal With El Salvador To House Criminals Deported From US

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.

Reason

El Salvador Walks Back Its Bitcoin Law

But it's also investing more in the cryptocurrency.

The Guardian - US

Exonerated environmental defenders to face murder retrial in El Salvador

Critics decry ‘politically motivated’ decision to revisit civil war-era charges against leaders of anti-mining campaign

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US Secretary Of State To Discuss Deportation Of Gang Members

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio to meet with Salvadorean President Nayib Bukele to discuss potential deportation of Tren de Aragua gang members to El Sal...

Latin Times

Trump Seeking Deal With El Salvador To Send Tren de Aragua Gang Members To Its Prisons

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

International Business Times

El Salvador Merchants No Longer Obliged To Accept Bitcoin

Merchants in El Salvador, the first country to make bitcoin legal tender, will no longer be obliged to accept the cryptocurrency as payment, under a reform adopted to comply with conditions for an international loan.

International Business Times

Salvadoran Town Hopes Trump Brings 'Good Times' For Bitcoin

Bitcoin enthusiasts seeking to turn a mountain town in El Salvador into a cryptocurrency haven hope that US President Donald Trump's return to the White House will boost their cause.

Latin Times

Countries 'Began Reaching Out' To Trump Admin After Colombia Tariff Threat To Discuss Accepting Deportees

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

International Business Times

'No Way Out': Grim Conditions In El Salvador's Mega-prison For Gangs

Confined to their cells for all but 30 minutes a day, denied visits, forced to sleep on stainless steel cots without mattresses: this is life in Latin America's biggest prison.

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Accused Killer Seeks Change Of Venue In Maryland Murder Case

High-profile case of murder and rape involving an El Salvadoran migrant in Maryland sparks debates on border security and justice.

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