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MARCOS ALEMÁN

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What to know about El Salvador's mega-prison after Trump sent hundreds of immigrants there

The crown jewel of El Salvador’s aggressive anti-crime strategy is a mega-prison where visitation, recreation and education are not allowed

What to know about El Salvador's mega-prison after Trump sent hundreds of immigrants there
Americas|Crime|Political|US|World

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

El Salvador’s offer to take in US deportees and violent criminals is unlike any other migrant deal
Americas|Crime|Political|US|World

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

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

Former El Salvador President Mauricio Funes dies in exile in Nicaragua at age 65

Former El Salvador President Mauricio Funes, who spent the final years of his life in Nicaragua to avoid various criminal sentences, died late Tuesday

Former El Salvador President Mauricio Funes dies in exile in Nicaragua at age 65
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El Salvador is gradually filling its new mega prison with alleged gang members

With tattoo-covered faces, wearing white shirts and shorts, gang members captured during El Salvador’s state of exception are gradually filling the country’s new mega prison

El Salvador is gradually filling its new mega prison with alleged gang members
Americas|Election|News

El Salvador's Nayib Bukele heads for reelection as president, buoyed by support for gang crackdown

Voters in El Salvador appeared to give Nayib Bukele a second term as president, putting him well on his way to a landslide victory in an election that for many hinged on the tradeoff of curtailed civil liberties for security in a country once terrorized by gangs

El Salvador's Nayib Bukele heads for reelection as president, buoyed by support for gang crackdown
Americas|Election|News

El Salvador opposition warns it may ask to nullify congressional election results

As El Salvador’s electoral body begins a vote-by-vote count of the country’s elections last week, the political opposition warned they could ask to nullify results of the legislative elections due to irregularities

El Salvador opposition warns it may ask to nullify congressional election results
Americas|Election|News|Political|World

El Salvador's Bukele wins supermajority in Congress after painstaking vote count

El Salvador President Nayib Bukele and his New Ideas party have won the supermajority the leader needs in Congress to govern as he pleases

El Salvador's Bukele wins supermajority in Congress after painstaking vote count
Americas|News|World

El Salvador death toll rises to 19 as heavy rains continue

The death toll from torrential rains and landslides in El Salvador has risen to 19

El Salvador death toll rises to 19 as heavy rains continue
Americas|Crime|News|World

El Salvador's police director and a fugitive banker are among 9 dead in a helicopter crash

El Salvador’s military says the national police director, other high-ranking police officials and a fugitive banker were among nine people killed in a military helicopter crash in a rural part of the country

Americas|Crime|World

Thousands of soldiers fence off a Salvadoran neighborhood in pursuit of gang remnants

More than 2,000 soldiers and 500 police officers surrounded a dense neighborhood on the outskirts of El Salvador’s capital in an effort to quash the remnants of gangs the president said were trying to set up shop in the area

Thousands of soldiers fence off a Salvadoran neighborhood in pursuit of gang remnants
Americas|Business|Economy|Finance|Political

El Salvador's president is triumphant after his bet on bitcoin comes true

El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele is triumphant about his big bet on bitcoin as the cryptocurrency reached historic highs, surpassing $100,000 for the first time

El Salvador's president is triumphant after his bet on bitcoin comes true
Americas|Crime|Political

El Salvador closes 2024 with a record low number of homicides

El Salvador closed 2024 with a record low 114 homicides, continuing notable security gains under a second full year of a state of emergency that has given the government extraordinary powers and curtailed some fundamental rights

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