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WATCH: Venezuelans in El Salvador's Infamous CECOT Prison Plead for Freedom

Dozens of Venezuelans held at El Salvador's high-security Terrorism Confinement Center (CECOT) appeared in a video this week shouting "freedom" and using hand signals to call for help

Latin Times

Trump cabinet member’s links to El Salvador crypto firm under scrutiny

Commerce chief Howard Lutnick’s firm backed controversial crypto giant Tether as Bukele ties deepened

The Guardian - US

Britain's biggest pawnbroker H&T snapped up by US giant

FirstCash operates more than 3,000 locations in America, Mexico, Guatemala, Colombia and El Salvador.

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Deported inmates taunt and mock Matt Gaetz and GOP delegation visiting El Salvador mega prison for OAN show

‘Americans are paying for the Tren de Aragua incarceration. It’s a bargain at $6 million,’ Matt Gaetz declared during his OAN report

The Independent UK

Rights groups sue to free Venezuelans deported from the US and held in El Salvador

International human rights organizations have filed a lawsuit with the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights asking that the commission order El Salvador’s government to release Venezuelans deported from the United States and held in a maximum-security prison

The Independent UK

The Perils of Offshoring Justice

Texas and the U.S.–El Salvador Prison Pipeline

Texas Observer

The desperate search for a father disappeared by Trump to El Salvador: ‘We don’t know anything’

Jerce Barrios told his family he might be transferred from a California detention center – no one’s heard from him since

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Trump pushes back against the judges who rule against him - Roll Call

Trump has a history of criticizing judges, but his administration in his second term has sought to more broadly undermine the judiciary.

Roll Call

'Dream Turned Nightmare' For Venezuelan Migrant Deported From US By Trump

Merwil Gutierrez, 19, was among 200 Venezuelans controversially deported by the Trump administration to El Salvador in March without due process or any criminal charges, says his father who has heard nothing for weeks.

International Business Times

Trump Administration Makes Damaging Admissions on Alien Enemies Act and Deportations

Trump admits he could return migrant illegally deported to El Salvador. And an intelligence community report concludes the Tren de Aragua drug gang isn't controlled by the Venezuelan government.

Reason

Does Nayib Bukele’s campaign against democracy give a blueprint for Trump?

El Salvador’s populist leader extols a hardline approach to crime and an assault on civil society – drawing envy from many in the Trump administration

The Guardian - US

El Salvador president orders arrest of of bus company heads for defying free transport order

El Salvador President Nayib Bukele has ordered police via social media to arrest five heads of bus companies in the Central American country after they defied his order to offer free transport for a week due to a highway closure

The Independent UK

Another Country Embraces El Salvador's Hardline Approach To Crime With New Mega-Prison

Costa Rica plans to expand its maximum-security capacity from 80 to 1,000 inmates and begin construction of a $35 million prison inspired by El Salvador's model.

Latin Times

Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s wrongful deportation case is more about individual rights than the Trump administration’s foreign policy

Trump administration officials have repeatedly claimed that judges who order the administration to take action to bring deported Venezuelans back from the El Salvador prison where the U.S. sent them are meddling in the conduct of foreign policy.

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The Independent UK

Tennessee police release video of Kilmar Abrego Garcia traffic stop in 2022

Authorities in Tennessee have released video of a 2022 traffic stop involving Kilmar Abrego Garcia

The Independent UK

LGBT+ community outraged after gay makeup artist with no criminal history is deported to mega-prison in El Salvador

Activists say Trump’s removal of Andry Jose Hernandez Romero to brutal jail is ‘a death sentence’

The Guardian - US

White House uses newly revealed allegations to support refusal to return Kilmar Ábrego García to US

Wife of man unlawfully sent to El Salvador filed protection petition in 2020 after domestic violence allegations

The Independent UK

Inmates awaiting deportation make giant ‘SOS’ message with their bodies that can be seen from the skies

Detainees stand together in formation to spell out distress signal in protest at their incarceration and potential transportation to El Salvador

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The Guardian - UK

First Thing: US and Ukraine sign minerals deal

Trump says agreement gives Washington an incentive to continue to invest in Ukraine’s protection. Plus, unraveling the ancient psychedelics myth

The Guardian - US

Trump officials contacted El Salvador president about Kilmar Ábrego García, sources say

Administration in touch with Nayib Bukele over detention of wrongly deported man, according to two people

Latin Times

U.S. Accused of 'Kidnapping' Toddler Placed in Foster Care as Mom Was Deported to Venezuela, Dad Sent to El Salvador

A family of three were separated after surrendering to US immigration authorities, with the couple's two-year-old child being left behind in the United States while her parents were deported to separate countries.

Latin Times

Venezuelan Two-Year-Old in U.S. Custody After Parents Get Abruptly Deported to Different Countries

Yorely Bernal Inciarte and Maiker Espinoza Escalona were deported to Venezuela and El Salvador, but their child remains in the U.S. foster care system.

Al Jazeera

US diplomat Marco Rubio will not provide info to judge about deported man

The Trump administration remains defiant despite a judge’s order to ‘facilitate’ return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia.

The Independent UK

Even El Salvador’s president questioned Trump team on if migrants being sent were actually gang members: report

El Salvador’s Nayib Bukele privately ‘expressed concern’ about who the Trump administration sent to El Salvador’s Terrorism Confinement Center, according to the report

Latin Times

El Salvador Reportedly Offered The U.S. a 50% Discount On Prisoner Fees In Exchange For Deporting MS-13 Members

The Salvadoran government reportedly offered the Trump administration a 50% discount on the fee it charges to hold U.S. deportees in exchange for finding and deporting nine MS-13 members

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