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Supreme Court Again Halts Trump’s Alien Enemies Act Deportations Mother Jones18:54 16-May-25
A Convict's Take on Due Process The Progressive15:57 16-May-25
Senate Republicans block Democratic push for transparency over Trump’s deportations to El Salvador PBS Online12:50 16-May-25
Lawyers for jailed Venezuelan migrants accuse El Salvador of ‘torture’ Digital Journal11:19 16-May-25
James Comey Enjoys Long Walks On The Beach… So MAGA Gonna Send Him To El Salvador Prison Camp Above the Law10:07 16-May-25
El Salvador’s Dictatorship: Made in Israel Consortiumnews.com07:10 16-May-25
Judge in Abrego Garcia case to review government's privilege claim CBS News06:04 16-May-25
In the last 7 days
Senate Republicans halt resolution on El Salvador deportations Roll Call20:14 15-May-25
Senate Dems Defend Illegal Migrant Criminals — Again The Daily Caller18:03 15-May-25
Senate Hands Donald Trump Win in El Salvador Deportation Fight Miami Herald17:46 15-May-25
Expert shreds Matt Gaetz's 'lie' over notorious prison: 'They were shouting kidnapped!' The Raw Story17:43 15-May-25
US Senate Republicans block measure to probe human rights in El Salvador Anadolu Agency16:42 15-May-25
Tim Kaine's attempt to force Salvadoran report on human rights falls flat Fox News16:38 15-May-25
Kirsti Noem won’t say if gay asylum-seeker deported to El Salvador’s ‘hellhole’ prison is still alive Advocate.com16:25 15-May-25
After Trump’s deportations, Venezuelan families struggle to bring their loved ones home from El Salvador America Magazine16:19 15-May-25
Senate Blocks El Salvador Human Rights Report NewsMax16:08 15-May-25
Where Do Things Stand With the Abrego Garcia Case? New York Magazine14:33 15-May-25
Trump Is Building a Global Gulag for Immigrants Captured by ICE The Intercept11:07 15-May-25
Democrat Slams Noem’s Refusal to Check if ‘Legal’ Asylum Seeker She Jailed in El Salvador is Alive: ‘He Did Everything… Mediaite19:03 14-May-25
El Salvador president announces 'foreign agents' proposal, fueling concerns of crackdown on… ABC News18:18 14-May-25
Salvadoran Journalists Exposed Pres. Bukele’s Ties to Gangs. Then They Had to Flee to Avoid Arrest Democracy Now!10:39 14-May-25
When Tattoos Become a Crime Newlines Magazine07:29 14-May-25
Jair Bolsonaro’s Son Has an Idea for Trump: Send Immigrants From Brazil to Prison in El Salvador Mother Jones06:11 14-May-25
Venezuelans in El Salvador prison plead for freedom in video AsiaOne22:19 13-May-25
The IMF Is Bailing Out El Salvador. It Shouldn’t Be So Lenient on Cryptocurrency. Council on Foreign Relations15:05 13-May-25
Trump and Bukele: The Few Repressing the Many Foreign Policy In Focus06:57 13-May-25
What Are Erik Prince’s Plans For The Second Trump Administration? – OpEd Eurasia Review20:25 12-May-25
What Are Erik Prince’s Plans For The Second Trump Administration? Scoop19:09 12-May-25
Exclusive: Criminal Docs Blow Apart Media Narrative About Migrant In El Salvador Prison The Daily Caller15:54 12-May-25
El Salvador: Informe de APES registra record histórico de agresiones a trabajadores de prensa International Federation of Journalists13:46 12-May-25
Metaplanet Surpasses El Salvador in Bitcoin With $127M Shocking Purchase 36crypto11:32 12-May-25
Max Keiser and Conor McGregor Suggest Ireland Consider a Bitcoin Reserve to Enhance Economic… Coinotag09:42 12-May-25
Metaplanet Overtakes El Salvador in Bitcoin Holdings Coinpaper06:33 12-May-25
FMLN reaffirms solidarity with Sahrawi people on Polisario Front's 52nd anniversary Sahara Press Service18:34 11-May-25
LATAM crypto wrap: Bolivia regulates FinTech as El Salvador’s BTC holdings top $625M Invezz04:58 11-May-25
El Salvador’s Continued Bitcoin Acquisitions Challenge IMF Conditions on National Crypto… Coinotag17:58 10-May-25
In the last month
WOLA Statement on Senate Resolution 195 on Human Rights in El Salvador The Washington Office on Latin America16:26 9-May-25
Homeland Security Committee chair explains why he rejected Democrats’ taxpayer trip to El Salvador The Blaze15:57 9-May-25
‘Maryland man’ Abrego Garcia is now ‘Salvadoran man’ The Washington Times11:45 9-May-25
‘Pre-ordained and inevitable’: DOJ granted stay of Trump-appointed judge’s ‘bizarre’ order to… Law & Crime11:30 9-May-25
Man ‘Disappeared’ by ICE Was on El Salvador Flight Manifest, Hacked Data Shows 404 Media10:51 9-May-25
Rights groups sue to free Venezuelans deported from the US and held in El Salvador ABC News10:33 9-May-25
CECOT Is What the Bukele Regime Wants You to See The Intercept10:13 9-May-25
They’ve watched democracies fail. They see it happening under Trump. Christian Science Monitor05:06 9-May-25
Private Prison CEO on ICE Contracts: We’re a Better Deal Than El Salvador’s CECOT The Intercept17:36 8-May-25
Judge orders discovery to see if Trump admin ‘violated federal law’ and ‘due-process rights’ by … Law & Crime16:29 8-May-25
Judge Questions Whether Trump’s Hands Are Really Tied Over Kilmar Abrego García Truthout14:53 8-May-25
Judge Boasberg Demands to Know If Trump Can Really Bring Abrego Garcia Home With a Phone Call Common Dreams12:30 8-May-25
US Must Fix Rules Sending ’Gang Members’ to El Salvador Prison Bloomberg Law04:30 8-May-25
Judge Seeks Details On U.S.-El Salvador Detainee Deal Law36023:54 7-May-25
Is the president not telling the truth?' Judge asks about Trump's Abrego Garcia comments AsiaOne22:20 7-May-25
7 Salvadorian journalists face charges after report on president’s alleged gang ties Committee to Protect Journalists19:13 7-May-25
Illegal deportations are piling up, but no one’s coming home Tucson Sentinel15:06 7-May-25
Sean Penn thinks Trump is out to 'destroy the world' The North West Star09:45 7-May-25
The populist war on law The New European02:54 7-May-25
Bus company heads face arrest for defying free transport order Jamaica Gleaner01:16 7-May-25
‘We don’t skip to the end’: Trump-appointed judge doubles down on order demanding government… Law & Crime19:41 6-May-25
Another judge skewers Trump’s use of Alien Enemies Act for deportations to El Salvador Politico15:27 6-May-25
Trump-appointed judge reaffirms order that admin seek return of 2nd wrongly deported man from… Politico14:05 6-May-25
DHS: Making U.S. Safe from ‘Worst of Worst,’ Especially MS-13 from El Salvador CNS News13:26 6-May-25
Trump ally plans arrest of journalists who revealed links with gangs: report The Raw Story12:00 6-May-25
Judge to hear arguments after ordering return of Venezuelan migrant from El Salvador ABC News10:56 6-May-25
The Dirty Deal with El Salvador Just Security09:14 6-May-25
Trump’s Deportations to El Salvador Are a Case for the ICC World Politics Review08:24 6-May-25
Trump Ally Bukele Reportedly Set to Arrest Journalists Who Revealed His Secret Pact With Gangs Common Dreams07:16 6-May-25
Carousel of Contempt The Dispatch02:57 6-May-25
El Salvador president orders arrest of bus company heads for defying free ride policy NPR01:12 6-May-25
El Salvador president orders arrest of bus company heads for defying order The Korea Herald21:24 5-May-25
El Salvador president orders arrest of of bus company heads for defying free transport order ABC News20:13 5-May-25
'Not asking you to gossip!' Fed-up CNN host gets testy with Trump agency official The Raw Story17:54 5-May-25
Deported Venezuelan mother accuses US government of 'kidnapping' her child ABC News14:15 5-May-25
El Faro Denounces Possible Arrest Warrants for At Least Seven Staff Members in El Salvador ElFaro13:15 5-May-25
El Salvador: denuncian intento de encarcelar a 7 periodistas por su trabajo International Federation of Journalists11:48 5-May-25
El Salvador prepares to arrest El Faro journalists, report Protos11:25 5-May-25
Alcatraz 'super jail' could rival MS-13 'hellhole' prison where cons shaved and stripped Daily Star09:37 5-May-25
What Bukele Wants from Trump Americas Quarterly07:29 5-May-25
AG Pam Bondi didn't announce people would spend 15 years in El Salvador for anti-Trump speech Snopes.com06:11 5-May-25
Prison of the peoples: With Trump’s support, El Salvador is turning into an international incarceration hub The Insider04:34 5-May-25
Trump Admits He’s Iffy On The Whole Due Process Thing Mother Jones12:28 4-May-25
Allegations emerge that El Salvador's President Bukele made secret deals with gangs Anadolu Agency03:35 4-May-25
Maziki Thame | Militarisation or democracy: Where is Jamaica heading? Jamaica Gleaner01:31 4-May-25
El Salvador's diaspora in the US ‘needs to wake up’ from Bukele's propaganda, Salvadoran–American journalist says Global Voices12:59 3-May-25
Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s wrongful deportation case is more about individual rights than the Trump administration’s… The Conversation (US)10:19 3-May-25
Costa Rica looks to El Salvador in announcing new prison and tough-on-crime reforms ABC News21:07 2-May-25
A legal architect of Guantanamo questions Trump's El Salvador plan NPR18:49 2-May-25
A Conservative Judge Set Up a Supreme Court Showdown Over Trump’s El Salvador Gulag Slate13:58 2-May-25
Ecuador’s President Emulates El Salvador’s Bukele as He Builds Ties With Trump Truthout13:04 2-May-25
Newly released video shows Abrego Garcia's 2022 Tennessee traffic stop ABC News11:32 2-May-25
Trump’s Deportees to El Salvador Are Now “Ghosts” in U.S. Courts The New Yorker06:11 2-May-25
Why El Salvador’s “Mega” Prisons Are Making the World Safer The Heritage Foundation19:37 1-May-25
Thousands Call on the Trump Administration to Return Kilmar Abrego Garcia Mother Jones18:33 1-May-25
Labor Leaders Urge Salvadoran Government to Release Illegally Deported Union Member Kilmar Abrego Garcia AFL-CIO (Press Release)18:18 1-May-25
Kaine breaks into Spanish as Dems force vote targeting Trump-El Salvador alliance over… Fox News17:56 1-May-25
Senate Democrats unveil bill forcing Trump administration to issue El Salvador human rights… Anadolu Agency15:51 1-May-25
Adrian Hogg details Valereum's global expansion plans - ICYMI Proactive Investors (UK)11:40 1-May-25
Following the ‘Exportations’ Columbia Journalism Review10:39 1-May-25
“They Shattered Our Dreams”: NY Father Recounts How ICE Snatched His Son & Sent Him to El Salvador Democracy Now!10:38 1-May-25
Stephen Miller’s Snowballing Deportation Deceptions Emptywheel (Weblog)09:38 1-May-25
From Evasion to Defiance The New York Review of Books09:09 1-May-25
Emergency declared for refinery; Officials discuss security in El Salvador; Drier weather is on the way Cuenca High Life09:06 1-May-25
Trump admits he could bring back wrongly deported man from El Salvador but 'won't' as administration explain reasoning UNILAD08:31 1-May-25
Senate Democrats plan to force a vote on resolution for transparency on deportations to El… The Washington Times08:24 1-May-25
U.S. Senate Resolution on El Salvador a Critical Step in Confronting Human Rights Crisis Amnesty International USA (Press Release)08:00 1-May-25
US presidency: mass deportation scheme ‘playing fast and loose with the law’ The International Bar Association06:39 1-May-25
Ecuadorean ministers tour infamous Salvadoran jail to pick up some ideas Mercopress06:02 1-May-25
The Anti-Trump Machine Takes on Bukele in the United States ElFaro06:00 1-May-25
El Salvador Committed To Buy Bitcoin Despite IMF Requirement, Says Minister— 'Important Project' Started By Nayib Bukele Benzinga01:10 1-May-25
El Salvador Committed to Buying Bitcoin Despite IMF Deal, Minister Says Bitcoin.com23:32 30-Apr-25
Abrego Garcia judge says U.S. must give answers on his return The Japan Times22:37 30-Apr-25
'Proof?' Even El Salvador's anti-gang chief doubts Trump's MS-13 tattoo claims The Raw Story19:59 30-Apr-25
Bukele ‘questioned Trump team if migrants were actually gang members’ The Independent19:43 30-Apr-25
Judge orders Trump officials to report efforts, if any, to return Kilmar Abrego Garcia to U.S. PBS Online18:54 30-Apr-25
'Window dressing': Legal experts skeptical of new report El Salvador rebuffed Trump The Raw Story18:47 30-Apr-25
Senator: 'Constitutional Crisis' Is Here TIME18:04 30-Apr-25
Secretary Rubio drops hammer on reporter asking about El Salvador and Abrego Garcia The Blaze17:52 30-Apr-25

      
            
      
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