El Salvador abolishes presidential term limits, extends term length
MP Claudia Ortiz, the lone elected representative of the Let's Go party in the 60-seat Salvadoran legislative assembly holds a placard Thursday protesting changes to…
El Salvador approves indefinite presidential re-election | Elections News
The constitutional amendment also extends presidential terms from five years to six and scraps election run-offs.El Salvador’s ruling party has passed a bill to overhaul…
Migrants in El Salvador prison swapped for Americans held in Venezuela
July 18 (UPI) -- About 250 Venezuelan migrants deported to El Salvador's maximum-security prison in March have been sent to Venezuela as part of a…
Venezuela frees 10 Americans in swap for deported migrants in El Salvador | Donald Trump News
An international deal has been struck that has allowed Venezuelans deported from the United States and imprisoned in El Salvador to return to their home…
Top anti-corruption group flees El Salvador amid government crackdown | Civil Rights News
The rights group Cristosal says it has evacuated staff from El Salvador amid pressure from President Nayib Bukele.The El Salvador human rights and anti-corruption watchdog…
Salvador Bagüez, The Times’ first Latino superstar with ‘the soul of an artist’
There are multi-talents, and then there was Salvador Bagüez.Hollywood used him as a bit actor in 1950s B-movies and classic Western television series from “Death…
Kilmar Abrego Garcia says he was beaten and subjected to psychological torture in El Salvador jail
WASHINGTON — Kilmar Abrego Garcia said he suffered severe beatings, severe sleep deprivation and psychological torture in the notorious El Salvador prison the Trump administration had deported…
Kilmar Abrego Garcia was ‘tortured’ in El Salvador prison, his lawyers say | News
New court filings detail man’s ordeal after his mistaken deportation became a flashpoint in Trump’s immigration crackdown.Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran man legally residing in…
Kilmar Abrego Garcia alleges he was tortured in El Salvador prison
Senator Chris Van Hollen, D-MD, speaks with Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran immigrant living in Maryland and deported to El Salvador by the Trump administration,…
U.S. plans to deport Abrego Garcia to a country that’s not El Salvador, prosecutor tells judge
President Trump’s administration plans to deport Kilmar Abrego Garcia to a country that’s not his native El Salvador after he’s released from jail in Tennessee,…
Court orders Trump administration to facilitate another deported man’s return from El Salvador
WASHINGTON — A federal appeals court in New York on Tuesday ordered the Trump administration to facilitate the return of a man who was deported to El…
Kilmar Abrego Garcia: Maryland man mistakenly deported to El Salvador back in U.S. now
June 6 (UPI) -- Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the Maryland man mistakenly deported to El Salvador, is back in the United States after being indicted in…
El Salvador arrests prominent human rights lawyer who defends deportees | Human Rights News
Ruth Eleonora López has defended Venezuelan immigrants deported to El Salvador by US President Trump’s administration.A prominent human rights lawyer known for defending immigrants deported…
Rights groups sue to free Venezuelans deported from the U.S. and held in El Salvador
SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador — International human rights organizations on Friday filed a lawsuit with the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights asking that the commission order El…
Trump’s deportations to El Salvador face constitutional challenge
WASHINGTON — President Trump has pressed for quickly deporting hundreds of Venezuelan and Salvadoran men who are said to belong to a foreign crime gang. Those deportations…
Rep. Garcia returns from El Salvador with a sliver of hope for deported gay hairdresser
Hello and happy Wednesday. I’m back and it feels like I never left because we’re still talking about Trumpian chaos.Rep. Robert Garcia traveled to El…
Democrats visit El Salvador in hopes of returning Kilmar Abrego Garcia
WASHINGTON — A group of House Democrats flew to El Salvador on Sunday to push for the return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, who was wrongly removed from…
El Salvador proposes prisoner swap with Venezuela involving U.S. deportees
April 21 (UPI) -- President Nayib Bukele of El Salvador has proposed a prisoner swap with Venezuela involving 250 Venezuelan deportees from the United States…
Sen. Van Hollen defends El Salvador visit to support deported man’s ‘due process’
April 20 (UPI) -- Sen. Chris Van Hollen, D-Md., in an interview Sunday defended his recent trip to El Salvador to meet with a man…
House GOP blocks Democrat delegation visit to deportee in El Salvador
April 19 (UPI) -- The Republican House Oversight Committee chairman has denied requests by two Democrats to check on a Maryland man wrongly deported to…