Why the men sent to El Salvador's mega-prison may never make it out
Families and lawyers fear for the deportees who may face indefinite detention in a prison known for human rights abuses.
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Mass Incarceration and Democratic Deterioration: Three Years of the State of Exception in El Salvador
On March 27, 2022, at the request of President Nayib Bukele, the Legislative Assembly passed a state of exception, limiting ...
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El Salvador says families can file complaints over unjust detention in notorious mega-prison
Families of Venezuelan deportees held in El Salvador’s infamous Cecot prison can petition the Salvadoran government for their release – but the fruitfulness of that process is an open question ...
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Inside look at El Salvador’s mega-prison holding Venezuelan deportees with alleged gang ties
The Trump administration’s decision to deport over 200 alleged Tren de Aragua members to El Salvador has ignited controversy, with questions arising over whether the president defied a federal ...
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Beatings, Overcrowding and Food Deprivation: US Deportees Face Distressing Human Rights Conditions in El Salvador’s Mega-Prison
Shackled and bent over – some of the 250-plus deportees arriving in El Salvador. El Salvador Presidency / Handout/Anadolu via ...
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Trump sent these Venezuelans to El Salvador mega prison. Their families deny gang ties.
Mervin Jose Yamarte Fernandez, 29, is one of Venezuelans accused by the Trump administration of gang affiliation and sent over the weekend to El Salvador’s Terrorist Confinement Center. His ...
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Cathie Wood to kick off El Salvador’s AI public education program
El Salvador’s Bitcoin Office touted the CUBO AI program as the only public education initiative that leverages top-tier industry experts. Cathie Wood, founder of the ARK Invest investment firm ...
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Here are the names of the Venezuelans deported by the U.S. to El Salvador
CBS News has obtained an internal government list of the names of the Venezuelan men the Trump administration deported to El Salvador as part of a secretive operation last week that has triggered ...
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El Salvador takes in hundreds of Venezuelan gang members from US, even as judge moves to block deportations
The president of El Salvador announced his country has accepted hundreds of Venezuelan gang members who were illegally living in the United States, as a U.S. judge moved to block deportations of ...
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Trump thanks El Salvador for taking in alleged gang members deported from US: ‘We will not forget’
President Donald Trump thanked El Salvador on Sunday after the country's president shared dramatic video of hundreds of alleged migrant criminals landing in Central America after being deported ...
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What to know about El Salvador's mega-prison after Trump sent hundreds of immigrants there
In this photo provided by El Salvador's presidential press office, prison guards transfer deportees from the U.S., alleged to be Venezuelan gang members, to the Terrorism Confinement Center in ...
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Look inside El Salvador’s CECOT mega-prison, where the Trump administration is sending some deported immigrants
Inmates allegedly linked to criminal organizations are imprisoned at CECOT in Tecoluca, El Salvador, March 16. (Courtesy of Salvadoran Government via Getty Images) 32,404 people played the daily ...