In part, the reason can be found in neighbourhoods of San Salvador like 10 de Octubre. Formerly controlled by the MS-13 gang, it was a stronghold of one of El Salvador's most powerful criminals ...

Dozens of tattooed, shaven-headed criminals were inspected by Kristi Noem, Donald Trump’s homeland security chief, during a visit to the El-Salvadorian mega-prison. Ms Noem visited the prison ...

Reuters Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Bukele struck a deal to house Tren de Aragua deportees at CECOT in February Rubio said that El Salvador is charging the US a “relatively low” fee for ...

Ana María Méndez Dardón is the Director for Central America at the Washington Office on Latin America (WOLA). At WOLA,... In the context of the third year of the state of exception, we answer four key ...

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem during a tour of the Terrorist Confinement Center (CECOT) as prisoners look out from a cell, in Tecoluca, El Salvador, on Wednesday. Photo: Alex ...

Tren de Aragua, whatever it may be – he [El Salvador President Nayib Bukelehas] offered his jails so we can send them here and he will put them in his jails". Bukele in a post on X (formerly ...

WASHINGTON — Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem on Wednesday visited the high-security El Salvador prison where Venezuelans who the Trump administration alleges are members of the Tren de ...

"This week, I'm headed down to El Salvador," Noem said ahead of the visit during a Cabinet meeting at the White House on Monday. "I'll be in the prison where we sent [Tren De Aragua] gang members.

An ICE official has said many of those deported did not have criminal records. In February 2023, El Salvador President Nayib Bukele posted to social media a tightly edited video with dramatic ...

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem toured El Salvador's notorious Terrorism Confinement ... face to face with alleged members of Tren de Aragua, all of whom were shirtless and had shaved ...

“This doesn’t just happen overnight,” said immigration lawyer Joseph Giardina, who represents one of the men now in El Salvador, Frizgeralth de Jesus Cornejo Pulgar. “They don’t get a ...

Trump invoked the Alien Enemies Act on March 15 to swiftly deport alleged members of the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua ... in the air to continue to El Salvador where the U.S. handed 238 ...