But while the country’s crime rate has fallen, the treatment of those imprisoned has triggered outrage among human rights organizations who call El Salvador’s prisons inhumane. The State ...

Previously, as CNF reported, El Salvador ended Bitcoin’s legal tender status. Now fully voluntary, BTC use is not required of businesses by the government as a form of payment. The choice followed El ...

3, 2025. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein, Pool) People arrive to board a repatriation flight bound for Colombia at Albrook Airport in Panama City, Monday, Feb. 3, 2025. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein, Pool) ...

SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador ... Bukele's residence on Lake Coatepeque outside the capital for almost three hours, where they agreed to go beyond El Salvador's acceptance of its own deported ...

SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) — El Salvador has offered to take in people deported from the ... The maximum-security facility is about 45 miles (72 kilometers) southeast of the capital city of San ...

Secretary of State Marco Rubio said he is reviewing an offer from the president of El Salvador to deport not just undocumented immigrants but also American prisoners to a mega-prison in the South ...

While Trump’s deal with El Salvador offers a direct solution to America’s crime problem, the Prime Minister’s vacillation highlights the paralyzing effect of legal and political fallout. By abandoning ...

Is there space? There is now.” Even before his announcement with Rubio, Bukele had planned to put more people in prison. Bukele ordered the mega-prison built as he began his campaign against El ...

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said late Monday that El Salvador’s president has offered to accept deportees from the U.S. of any nationality, including violent American criminals now ...

SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) — The Trump administration and the president of El Salvador said Monday that they’d struck a deal allowing the U.S. to ship both detained migrants and imprisoned ...

(CNN) — El Salvador has agreed to house violent US criminals ... between alleged gang members and people found guilty of a crime. Under the draconian state of emergency that has ruled the ...