Earlier this year, the United States deported 252 Venezuelans to El Salvador and paid its government to imprison them, despite clear evidence of human-rights abuses in the country’s prison system and ...

El Salvador just spent $100 million on over 1000 bitcoin as the country presses ahead with its aggressive Bitcoin accumulation strategy. Some sell Bitcoin on the dips while others aggressively buy ...

The United States of America (United States, or U.S.) and the Republic of El Salvador (El Salvador) have agreed to a Framework for an Agreement on Reciprocal Trade (Agreement) that further strengthens ...

El Salvador lawmakers' July 31 approval of a constitutional amendment ending presidential term limits was the latest action in a years-long process to dismantle the rule of law. The international ...

Over 250 prisoners were released from CECOT, Venezuela's government said. The more than 200 Venezuelan migrants who were deported by the Trump administration to El Salvador's mega-prison in March have ...

More than 200 Venezuelan immigrants whom the Trump administration had sent to a notorious megaprison in El Salvador have been flown to Venezuela, El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele said in a post on ...

PANAMA CITY, Panama —El Salvador has lost one more human rights group. The country's most prominent human rights group, Cristosal, announced on Thursday that it's being forced to shut down its ...

In exchange for jailing more than 200 deportees, El Salvador’s president, Nayib Bukele, has become a favorite of the Trump administration. By Annie Correal and Pranav Baskar For the U.S. government, ...

In the aftermath of President Donald Trump’s unlawful transfer of hundreds of migrants to a torture prison in El Salvador, the administration claimed that it had no legal authority to bring them back ...

MEXICO CITY — Leading human rights activist, Ruth López, has been arrested in El Salvador, after the Attorney General's office accused her of embezzlement of state funds. López leads the ...

President Nayib Bukele’s crackdown on gangs has brought peace to El Salvador, but the price, some Salvadorans say, has been the loss of civil liberties. “We used to be afraid of the gangs,” says one ...

Blog posts represent the views of CFR fellows and staff and not those of CFR, which takes no institutional positions. El Salvador’s recent $1.4 billion bailout by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) ...