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US refuses to invite Cuba to Summit of the Americas in Los Angeles

WASHINGTON — The Biden administration plans to exclude Cuba from the upcoming Summit of the Americas, a major global meeting to be held in Los Angeles in June that typically welcomes all governments in the Western Hemisphere, a senior U.S. official told The Times.

Los Angeles Times

Rights groups cite 338 violations in El Salvador arrests

Five human rights groups say there have been complaints of at least 338 violations of human rights during El Salvador’s massive arrests of suspected gang members

The Independent UK

Mexican president to talk development, migration on tour

Mexico President Andrés Manuel López Obrador begins a lightning tour Thursday to four Central American countries and Cuba in five days to discuss his approach to development and ways it might help alleviate the pressure to migrate

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Rights groups criticize El Salvador's mass gang roundups

Human rights groups are criticizing El Salvador’s massive arrests of suspected gang members

The Independent UK

El Salvador Detains 17,000 'Suspected Gang Members' Without Due Process

President Nayib Bukele extends “state of emergency” for El Salvador—allowing the police to continue to mass arrest people for little, if any, reason.

Reason

El Salvador extends emergency powers to fight gangs

El Salvador's Congress on Sunday approved a month-long extension of emergency measures that rights groups say infringe civil liberties but which President Nayib Bukele has said are necessary after a surge of gang killings.

Reuters

El Salvador president wants to extend state of emergency

President Nayib Bukele has asked El Salvador's congress to extend an anti-gang emergency decree for another 30 days

The Independent UK

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Rights Commission urges El Salvador to respect rights

The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights is calling on the government of El Salvador to respect human rights, after authorities declared a state of emergency and rounded up 14,000 suspected gang members

The Independent UK

El Salvador president's mass arrests 'punitive populism'

El Salvador's security forces have arrested more than 10,000 suspected gang members in just over two weeks under rules that free them from having to explain an arrest or grant access to a lawyer

The Independent UK

Union: El Salvador police pressured to meet arrest cuotas

A police union in El Salvador says some National Civilian Police commanders have been pressuring officers to meet daily arrest quotas as part of the government’s crackdown on street gangs that have yielded more than 10,000 arrests

The Independent UK

In response to killings, El Salvador’s bitcoin president attacks civil liberties

SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador — After a dramatic spike in killings here over a single weekend last month, Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele’s reaction was swift — and extreme.

Los Angeles Times

Did Gang Violence Force El Salvador President To Call Off Bitcoin Conference Appearance?

El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele said he is canceling his participation in the upcoming Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) conference due to “unforeseen circumstances” in his home country.

Benzinga

El Salvador threatens prison for media sharing gang messages

El Salvador’s congress has approved laws that would impose prison sentences of 10 to 15 years for news media that reproduce messages from the country’s street gangs, and that's alarming press freedom groups

The Independent UK

El Salvador making it harder for murderous gangs to spread messages

Waging a campaign against gangs responsible for El Salvador having one of the world's highest murder rates, Congress in the Central American republic passed a bill on Tuesday criminalizing the publication of gang messages, including by news outlets.

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The Independent UK

Miami’s crypto craze on full display at bitcoin conference

Thousands of cryptocurrency enthusiasts are gathering in Miami as the city builds its reputation as one of the key locations to develop the blockchain technology despite its underdog status

The Independent UK

El Salvador leader says he'll cut all food for gang inmates

El Salvador’s president has threatened to stop providing food for imprisoned members of street gangs

The Guardian - US

El Salvador reels as 6,000 people arrested in unprecedented crackdown

Authoritarian populist president Nayib Bukele has suspended rights in state of emergency justified as attack on MS13 gang

ABC News

El Salvador's bitcoin experiment makes tech tourists happy but the locals are not convinced

El Salvador's adoption of bitcoin as a national currency is gaining massive support from crypto enthusiasts and "tech bros" around the world. So what do the locals think?

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Los Angeles Times

Biden official says US will likely see an uptick in asylum requests and immigration

LOS ANGELES — Democracy in Central America appears to be on the downslide.

Reuters

El Salvador boosts jail time for gang members after rash of murders

El Salvador's gang lords and their followers will face prison sentences ranging from 20 to 45 years under penal reforms passed by Congress on Wednesday in the wake of 89 registered murders, allegedly by groups like MS-13, over the weekend.

The Independent UK

El Salvador has day without murder under state of emergency

El Salvador experienced its first day without a killing since imposing a state of emergency following a rash of gang violence last weekend

The Independent UK

El Salvador forces encircle neighborhoods in gang crackdown

El Salvador’s security forces have intensified their operations against the country’s street gangs with mass arrests, the cordoning off of entire neighborhoods and house-by-house searches under a state of emergency sought by President Nayib Bukele

The Independent UK

El Salvador arrests 600 gang suspects, cuts food for inmates

The government of El Salvador has arrested more than 600 gang suspects and ordered reductions in food for inmates, after a wave of killings over the weekend

Tribune News Service

El Salvador declares state of emergency as gang murders soar

El Salvador’s National Assembly in an early morning session on Sunday approved a state of emergency request made by President Nayib Bukele to tame a wave of gang-related killings over the weekend.

The Independent UK

El Salvador declares state of emergency over gang murders after 62 killings in one day

Wave of bloodshed over weekend believed to be linked to country’s notorious and powerful street gangs

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