Many of the men, including Jerce Barrios, have no criminal records, and some gang membership allegations are falling apart.

The Trump administration deported 300 Venezuelan migrants to El Salvador, taking them to a mega-prison system accused of ...

The day after he was arrested while working at a restaurant in Texas, Mervin Jose Yamarte Fernandez climbed out of a plane in shackles in El Salvador, bound for the largest mega-prison in Latin ...

El Salvador’s Cecot mega-prison was notorious long before the Trump administration’s recent decision to deport hundreds of ...

Making the crypto asset legal tender was a worthy experiment, but financial innovation requires more state capacity and better regulations.

When We Sold God’s Eye’ by Alex Cuadros is an unsentimental, vital report of how ‘civilised’ society disrupts Indigenous life ...

A mega-prison where visitation and education are not allowed became Trump's latest tool in his crackdown on immigration, when ...

El Salvador's San Sebastian river has no fish. The runoff from a gold mine upstream, already shuttered two decades ago, has ...

The $1.4 billion IMF loan requires El Salvador to improve transparency and Bitcoin-related financial oversight. The government must disclose all public-sector Bitcoin holdings and conduct ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

Catalan president Salvador Illa and the president of the European Council, António Costa, during a meeting. Previously classified files related to JFK assassination released Jeremy Clarkson ...