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Venezuelans in El Salvador prison plead for freedom in video
Venezuelans held in a high-security prison in El Salvador shouted “freedom” and used a hand signal for help in a video ...
Deported Venezuelans believed held at El Salvador mega-prison, UN says
The United Nations has information that over 100 Venezuelans deported from the United States are being held at a ...
Tren de Aragua gangbangers at ICE facility barricade themselves, threaten to take hostages after spelling out SOS in prison yard
Nearly two dozen Tren de Aragua gangbangers in an ICE detention center in Texas have barricaded themselves and threatened to take hostages in a major uprising — days after migrants ...
El Salvador promotes its ‘happy’ prison where man wrongly deported by Trump is being held
The collective hum of hundreds of sewing machine needles ploughing through fabric pierces the air as the prisoners get to ...
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Inmates Taunt, Scream at Members of Congress During Visit to El Salvador Mega-Prison
A delegation of Republican and Democratic members of Congress were taunted and screamed at by inmates in the Tren de Aragua ...
First video from inside notorious El Salvador prison shows chilling reality for inmates
Footage from inside El Salvador's Centre for the Confinement of Terrorism (CECOT) has provided more evidence of what ...
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Lost in the ‘Death Realm’ of El Salvador’s Prisons
President Trump’s decision to send migrants to a Salvadoran prison has set off a national debate in the U.S. In El Salvador, ...
Rights groups sue to free Venezuelans deported from the US and held in El Salvador
SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) — International human rights organizations on Friday filed a lawsuit with the Inter-American ...
Family of Venezuelan refugee sues U.S. for his return after deportation to prison in El Salvador
Attorneys for a Venezuelan man who came to Texas as a refugee last year and was later deported to El Salvador have sued the ...
EXCLUSIVE: Criminal Docs Blow Apart Media Narrative About Migrant In El Salvador Prison
A deported illegal migrant whose family claimed he had no criminal history has previously been accused of several crimes, ...
Federal judge won’t undo order requiring Trump administration to facilitate return of asylum seeker deported to El Salvador
A federal judge refused on Tuesday to wipe away her order that the Trump administration “facilitate” the return of a ...
Costa Rica looks to El Salvador in announcing new prison and tough-on-crime reforms
Costa Rican President Rodrigo Chaves has taken another step in his shift toward a tough-on-crime stance, announcing plans to build a new prison in the Central American nation modeled on the maximum ...