Haitian leader to visit El Salvador to discuss future of Salvadoran offensive in Haiti
By Marcos Alemán and Megan Janetsky November 9, 2026 Credit: Odelyn Joseph / AP Photo SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) — Haiti’s prime minister will meet with El Salvador’s government next week in a visit to the Central American nation to discuss the future of Salvadoran troops in Haiti, a Salvadoran government official confirmed to The Associated Press on Monday. The source spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the matter. It was not clear
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Salvadoran families demand fair trials, mourn prison dead
By Wilfredo Pineda October 31, 2026 Credit: REUTERS/Jose Cabezas SAN SALVADOR, Oct 31 (Reuters) - Relatives of people detained under El Salvador's controversial state of exception gathered at the San Salvador metropolitan cathedral on Saturday to leave offerings for inmates who have died behind bars, demanding justice. Participants arrived carrying yellow and red flowers, banners and photographs of jailed family members. Inside the capital's cathedral, they knelt in prayer
Reuters
Nov 2
El Salvador continues to deploy soldiers to Haiti as gangs threaten violence
By Jacqueline Charles October 26, 2026 Credit: Patrice Noel REUTERS Flights carrying soldiers and military equipment from El Salvador continued to arrive on Monday in Haiti, where search and rescue operations for four missing Salvadoran aviation technicians remain ongoing. The men were ambushed on Oct. 18 in a gang-controlled territory east of Port-au-Prince and remain unaccounted for. Members of the armed forces of El Salvador, they were deployed under the United Nations-aut
Miami Herald
Oct 27
El Salvador Continues Deployment To Haiti Amid gang violence
By Jacqueline Charles October 27, 2026 An armored personnel carrier belonging to the Gang Suppression Force in Haiti is on patrol after El Salvador announced a rescue mission for four air force members who went missing after a gang ambush. Patrice Noel REUTERS Flights carrying soldiers and military equipment from El Salvador continued to arrive on Monday in Haiti, where search and rescue operations for four missing Salvadoran aviation technicians remain ongoing. The men were
Miami Herald
Oct 26
Costa Rica opens a Bukele-style mega-prison
Costa Rica has made fighting drug trafficking a main goal, inspired by El Salvador's hardline approach By Javier Córdoba (AP) and María Verza (AP) October 14, 2026 Credit: Reuters 2026 SAN JOSÉ, Costa Rica -- SAN JOSÉ, Costa Rica (AP) — Costa Rica, considered for decades a peaceful enclave in turbulent Central America, has now made fighting drug trafficking one of its main goals. And it is turning to one of its Central American neighbors for inspiration in its hardline crackd
ABC News
Oct 16
Mass Trials Put Hundreds in One Dock in El Salvador
By James Wagner October 7, 2026 Lawyers warn that the mass trials of people imprisoned during President Nayib Bukele’s gang crackdown are marred by vague evidence and restrictions on a proper defense. Credit: Alex Peña/Getty Across El Salvador, hundreds of inmates appear in court by video simultaneously for a single, joint hearing. Some lawyers say that they are first meeting their clients on the same day as their trial. And individual anonymous witnesses are testifying again
The New York Times
Oct 9
US deal funneled deportees into El Salvador’s prison system
By RFI September 22, 2026 Families of 11 Salvadoran men deported from the United States are demanding to know what happened to their relatives after they were sent back to El Salvador under a secret agreement between US President Donald Trump and his Salvadoran counterpart Nayib Bukele. Part of The Deportation Project coordinated by Forbidden Stories, this investigation traces how Trump's deportation drive fed into El Salvador's prison system, in a case rights groups say amou
In El Salvador, mothers desperately search for the disappeared
By Bryan Avelar September 13, 2026 President Nayib Bukele claims that years of gang violence have left 80,000 people missing. However, the Legislative Assembly has rejected a proposed bill centered around the search for the disappeared, leaving families feeling helpless. Forensic criminalist Israel Ticas excavates a clandestine grave in El Salvador. Photo by EL PAÍS USA Edition Shortly after 9:00 p.m. on August 4, 2021, Herbert Argueta got up from the chair where he had spent
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Sep 12
El Salvador extends mass gang detentions until 2027
The country faces an extension on gang detentions amidst constitutional reforms which abolished presidential term limits earlier this...
The Tico Times
Aug 19, 2025
Venezuela to probe Bukele for ‘torture’ of US deportees
Deported migrants say they were beaten, sexually abused and fed rotten food inside a notorious El Salvador prison. Arturo Suarez, who was...
Al Jazeera
Jul 22, 2025
Colombia blocks deportees, backs down when Trump threatens
Colombian President Gustavo Petro, pictured at the White House in April 2023, said Sunday his country will not accept U.S. flights of...
NGOs start registry of disappeared persons in El Salvador
By MARCOS ALEMÁN Updated 5:41 PM CDT, August 21, 2024 FILE - People detained by national police are transported to a detention center,...
Associated Press
Aug 22, 2024
