El Salvador, Feb. 2, 2023. (AP Photo/Salvador Melendez, File) Prison guards stand outside holding cells during a media tour ...

Donald Trump has been offered the use of El Salvador’s infamous CECOT mega-prison as he seeks to deport criminals from the US ...

Under an unprecedented deal reached this week, El Salvador has agreed to accept deportees from the US of any nationality, ...

President Bukele, who labels himself as the "coolest dictator" and a "philosopher king," has built election success and ...

Prisoners spend 23.5 hours a day locked in their cells, with a brief, daily 30-minute window for exercise or religious ...

In order to accept a $1.4 billion loan from the IMF, El Salvador had to change some of its cryptocurrency laws.

Bukele said he would charge the United States a "relatively low" fee to house convicted criminals in El Salvador's Terrorism Confinement Center, or CECOT, a mega-prison built to hold up to 40,000 ...

Nayib Bukele meets with US secretary of state Marco Rubio as Trump attempts to deport large numbers of ‘dangerous’ offenders ...

Secretary of State Marco Rubio praised President Nayib Bukele’s “unprecedented, extraordinary” proposal to accept any ...

But the proposal has drawn attention to the prisons that Mr. Bukele has used in recent years to cripple the gangs that once ran rampant in El Salvador. They have become symbols of his strength and ...

SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador — 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 ...

The Trump administration and the president of El Salvador said they struck a deal allowing the U.S. to ship detained migrants and imprisoned criminals to a mega-prison there SAN SALVADOR ...