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'Closing Time' Artists Slam Trump Administration For Using Their Song in Video Mocking Deportees: 'They Have Missed The Point'

Alt-rock band Semisonic has responded harshly to the Trump administration using their hit song, 'Closing Time' in a video posted on X to mock deportees

Latin Times · Mar 17, 2025

Border Czar Defies Court Order Seeking To Stop Deportation Of Alleged Venezuelan Gang Members: "I Don't Care'

President Donald Trump's appointed "border czar" Tom Homan granted an interview to Fox News on Monday covering the deportation of over 200 Venezuelans to El Salvador.

Latin Times · Mar 17, 2025

White House's X Account Mocks Alleged 'Tren de Aragua' Members Being Deported to the Tune of 90s Song 'Closing Time'

The White House's official X account uploaded a video mocking alleged "Tren de Aragua" members being deported to the tune of 90s song "Closing Time" by Supersonic

Latin Times · Mar 17, 2025

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White House denies violating judge’s order with Venezuela deportations

Trump administration used Alien Enemies Act to deport about 250 alleged gang members to El Salvador

The Guardian - US · Mar 17, 2025

Trump Administration Deports Alleged Venezuelan Gang Members Despite Court Order

The White House invoked a rare wartime law to deport alleged Venezuelan gang members to El Salvador, sparking a legal battle.

Reason · Mar 17, 2025

Shaved Heads And Rough Treatment: El Salvador's Bukele Posts Video Showing Reception of Alleged Gang Members Deported From U.S.

Salvadorean President Nayib Bukele posted a video showing the rough treatment received by alleged members of Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua upon their arrival to the country and its infamous prison

Latin Times · Mar 17, 2025

Trump deports 238 ‘gang members’ to El Salvador: What’s the controversy?

The US president invokes a 1798 law to deport alleged members of the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua to El Salvador.

Al Jazeera · Mar 17, 2025

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Pictured: Deported Venezuelan 'gang members' detained in El Salvador despite US court order

El Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele said 238 members of the Tren de Aragua gang had arrived in the country

Evening Standard · Mar 17, 2025

El Salvador Continues Bitcoin Stacking As $BTC Struggles Below $85,000

El Salvador is unfazed by concerns around its Bitcoin reserve following a recent agreement with the IMF to concede some of its policies to secure a loan, but there are questions on the Bukele government's "contradictory" actions.

International Business Times · Mar 17, 2025

US deports over 200 Venezuelan immigrants to El Salvador despite court ban

Alleged Tren de Aragua members sent to Latin American country amid legal and human rights concerns.

Al Jazeera · Mar 16, 2025

Marco Rubio Thanks El Salvador's President for Allowing Deported Alleged Gang Members Into Its Mega-Prison: 'A Great Friend of the US'

The U.S. Secretary of State thanked El Salvadorian President Nayib Bukele for taking in more than 200 alleged gang members in its 40,000-inmate prison for the "low cost" of $6 million.

Latin Times · Mar 16, 2025

El Salvador Takes in 238 Deported 'Tren de Aragua Members', Says U.S. Will Pay 'Very Low Fee'

Amid mass deportation hurdles, Trump Administration leverages El Salvador's mega-Prison to ease domestic strain

Latin Times · Mar 16, 2025

Inside the brutal mega-prison where Trump administration has wrongly sent Maryland father

Inmates are denied access to visitors and recreation inside the maximum-security prison

The Independent UK · Mar 16, 2025

US deports hundreds of Venezuelans to El Salvador, despite judge's order

President Trump flouts judge's order and deports more than 250 Venezuelans, accused of being members of the Tren de Aragua criminal gang, to El Salvador.

Euronews · Mar 16, 2025

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The Guardian - US · Mar 16, 2025

US deports 250 alleged gang members to El Salvador despite court ruling to halt flights

Trump invoked 1798 law previously used to detain Japanese Americans in second world war to justify deportations

International Business Times · Mar 16, 2025

US Flies Alleged Gang Members To El Salvador Despite Court Block

The United States flew over 200 alleged members of a Venezuelan gang to be imprisoned in El Salvador, President Nayib Bukele said Sunday, after US counterpart Donald Trump invoked wartime legislation to expel the migrants.

Latin Times · Mar 13, 2025

Sacramento Funeral Home Sued for Sending Wrong Body to Family in El Salvador

The family of Francisco Quintanilla is suing La Paz Funeral Services for sending them the wrong body for an open-casket funeral in in their home country of El Salvador.

The Guardian - UK · Mar 12, 2025

‘They turned our home into a cemetery’: the high price of El Salvador’s Bitcoin City dream

Mangroves are being destroyed and residents displaced to make way for an airport to serve president Nayib Bukele’s vision of a tax-free economic hub

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International Business Times · Mar 6, 2025

In El Salvador, A River Without Fish Feeds Fear Of Mining

El Salvador's San Sebastian river has no fish. In the community of Santa Rosa de Lima, a two-hour drive from the capital San Salvador, wastewater still flows directly into the San Sebastian river from a nearby hill where a gold mine operated for 100 years until 2006.

International Business Times · Mar 5, 2025

Nayib Bukele Says El Salvador Will Keep Buying Bitcoin Despite IMF Deal, Draws Criticism

Nayib Bukele is under fire among Bitcoiners and prominent figures in the crypto industry after he insisted that El Salvador will not halt its strategic Bitcoin reserve even if the IMF's funding deal clearly states that the country is prohibited from buying $BTC throughout the funding program's duration.

The Independent UK · Mar 5, 2025

Strange 2,400-year-old puppets with ‘dramatic facial expressions’ discovered atop pyramid

Findings contradict notion of El Salvador being isolated in ancient times

LiveScience · Mar 5, 2025

2,400-year-old puppets with 'dramatic facial expression' discovered atop pyramid in El Salvador

These striking puppets suggest that Indigenous people in what is now El Salvador had rituals that were more connected to the rest of Central American culture than previously thought.

The Guardian - AU · Feb 28, 2025

Heart and sole: the Salvadorian shoemaker catering to Melbourne’s well-heeled

José Rodríguez gets ‘a special kind of feeling’ from his craft, derived from the fact ‘that someone else is happy’ with his work

The Independent UK · Feb 19, 2025

A look at the 8 Latin American crime groups designated as terrorist organizations by the US

The United States government is formally designating eight Latin American organized crime groups that also operate in the U_S_ to be “foreign terrorist organizations.”

The Guardian - US · Feb 7, 2025

Bukele-mania: El Salvador strongman’s crime clampdown excites regional right

Marco Rubio heaped praise on a president who has jailed thousands with few legal niceties – but can work his model work elsewhere in Latin America beset by gang violence?

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