What the Venezuelans Deported to El Salvador Experienced
On the night of Saturday, March 15, three planes touched down in El Salvador, carrying 261 men deported from the United ...
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Mass Incarceration and Democratic Deterioration: Three Years of the State of Exception in El Salvador
On March 27, 2022, at the request of President Nayib Bukele, the Legislative Assembly passed a state of exception, limiting ...
Kristi Noem’s El Salvador Prison Photo Op Is a New Low
The DHS boss’s latest cosplaying stunt isn’t just political theater—it’s a defiant provocation amid legal battles over ...
Trump appears in denial, out of the loop, on whether Signal security breach disclosed classified details: ‘I really don’t know’
At a news conference yesterday, President Donald Trump seemed confused about the basic facts surrounding the improper use of ...
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Bukele’s obsession with comparing El Salvador to Mexico
The president of El Salvador, Nayib Bukele, likes to needle Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum about the high levels of violence in her country compared to his. But Bukele had a Snow White moment on ...
AP photographer describes Homeland Security Secretary’s tour of El Salvador prison
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem is visiting the high-security El Salvador prison where Venezuelans who the Trump ...
The grim irony of a convicted felon denying immigrants their right to due process
President Trump was afforded due process under the law. Many immigrants caught in his deportation blitz are being denied ...
The Latest: Trump administration targets Maine and University of Pennsylvania over trans athletes
The Education Department has concluded that Maine’s education office violated Title IX antidiscrimination law by allowing ...
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The Latest: DOGE official to take USAID leadership role despite department helping to dismantle it
Trump told Zelenskyy the U.S could be “very helpful in running those plants with its electricity and utility expertise,” according to a White House statement from Secretary of State Marco Rubio ...
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El Salvador gets its bitcoin from Bitfinex, raising control concerns
After tracing the bitcoin listed on El Salvador’s sovereign balance sheet, some researchers wonder if Bitfinex – rather than Nayib Bukele’s administration – controls these coins. According to a ...