Olfran Alejandro Escobar Falcón was flagged as a gang suspect despite having no criminal record, according to his family.

El Salvador President Nayib Bukele says that he’s pushing forward a “foreign agents” bill that critics say would deal another ...

SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) — International human rights organizations on Friday filed a lawsuit with the Inter-American ...

The Trump administration has reportedly agreed to pay El Salvador $6 million for the deportees to be sent to Salvadoran prisons. Mr. Bukele said the money would help make the country’s prison ...

During a press briefing in Turkey, Secretary of State Marco Rubio lashes out at negative media coverage of the mega-prison in El Salvador where deportees are being sent to, claiming it is 'anti-Bukele ...

Costa Rica plans to expand its maximum-security capacity from 80 to 1,000 inmates and begin construction of a $35 million ...

El Salvador's president, Nayib Bukele, has proposed an exchange of Venezuelans deported by the U.S. for 'political prisoners' in Venezuela.

Yet during this week’s frenzy, US media obsessively zeroed in on El Salvador’s Centre for the Confinement of Terrorism, or CECOT, a prison constructed by Bukele’s government where some ...

Costa Rican President Rodrigo Chaves has taken another step in his shift toward a tough-on-crime stance, announcing plans to build a new prison in the Central American nation modeled on the maximum se ...

Inmates use sewing machines in Centro Industrial prison in Santa Ana, El Salvador, in April 2025. (NBC News) Santos said there is no evident legal basis for Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele’s ...

A Maryland man wrongly deported to a notoriously violent prison in El Salvador told a U.S. senator that he was traumatized by the experience.

President Trump’s decision to send to El Salvador ... of men into prisons not to be heard from again is disturbingly familiar. Since 2022, when President Nayib Bukele’s government imposed ...