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El Salvador is Sending Thousands of Troops to El Salvador to Fight Haitian Gangs. It Has Trump's Blessing.

Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele is prepared to the troops following an ambush that left four military personnel missing.

International Business Times · 6h ago

California Man Becomes First U.S. Citizen Surrendered to El Salvador After 2019 Feminicide: What the DOJ Said

Michael Alejandro Castillo Murga, arrested in California after years as a fugitive, was transferred to Salvadoran custody to face charges linked to the 2019 killing of his former partner.

Latin Times · 8h ago

Peru's Fujimori becomes latest Latin American leader to visit notorious Salvadoran prison CECOT

Peruvian President Keiko Fujimori visits El Salvador's Terrorism Confinement Center, a maximum-security prison built by President Nayib Bukele

The Independent UK · 23h ago

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Haiti announces new election dates as 2,000 Salvadoran troops help fight gangs

Haiti’s government has announced new election dates as police and soldiers, backed by over 2,000 troops from El Salvador, fight gangs

The Independent UK · Oct 29

El Salvador Deploys More Than 2,000 Troops to Haiti as Search for Missing Soldiers Intensifies

El Salvador has sent more than 2,000 soldiers to Haiti to search for four missing military technicians after an ambush and assist operations against armed gangs.

Latin Times · Oct 29

What Brazil's Crypto Deadline, Colombia's Shelved Bill, and Argentina's Banking Ban Reveal About Latin America's $593 Billion Digital Economy

Brazil's licensing deadline is widening regulatory differences across Latin America, where El Salvador, Argentina and Colombia are pursuing sharply different approaches to crypto oversight and market access.

Latin Times · Oct 28

Keiko Fujimori's Four-Day El Salvador Mission Puts Bukele's Crime Model Under the Microscope

Peruvian President Fujimori arrived in El Salvador for a four-day visit focused on the CECOT prison, President Nayib Bukele's security policies and possible cooperation on crime, prisons and public services.

Latin Times · Oct 28

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Tortured in El Salvador, Injured in the U.S. and Deported to Mexico

Under Trump, more than 300 people granted protection from persecution or torture in their homelands have been sent elsewhere.

Capital & Main · Oct 27

El Salvador's Bukele Deploys 450 Troops to Haiti After Four Aviation Technicians Disappear in a Gang Ambush

El Salvador has deployed about 450 troops to Haiti after four aviation technicians disappeared following a gang ambush, while officials dispute reports that recovered bodies belonged to them.

Latin Times · Oct 26

El Salvador’s Bukele says bodies found in Haiti are not those of missing Salvadorans

El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele has denied that human remains handed over to his military teams at Haiti’s airport are the bodies of four Salvadorans reported missing after coming under attack by gangs on Oct. 18

The Independent UK · Oct 25

El Salvador's planned release of some prisoners falls short for many families

Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele plans to release some prisoners detained during his government's crackdown on suspected gang members

The Independent UK · Oct 23

El Salvador deploys special forces to Haiti to help find 4 missing soldiers who came under attack

Two officials have told The Associated Press that El Salvador has deployed 100 special forces soldiers to Haiti to help recover four missing soldiers from the Central American country who recently came under attack by gangs

The Independent UK · Oct 22

El Salvador's Bukele Launches Military Rescue Operation in Haiti After Four Salvadoran Soldiers Are Abducted

President Nayib Bukele announced a military rescue operation in Haiti after four Salvadoran Air Force personnel were abducted following an ambush by armed gangs.

Latin Times · Oct 22

El Salvador launches military operation in Haiti to free four kidnapped aviation technicians

Bukele warned that failure to free the men who have been missing since Sunday’s attack on an armoured vehicle would trigger a far more powerful operation.

Euronews · Oct 22

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Latin Times · Oct 22

Jensen Huang's AI Billions Bypass Latin America — And the Region Is Running Out of Time

Nvidia pledged $2B to Europe and $250M to the UK in one week. Latin America, drawing just 1.1% of global AI investment, received nothing.

The Independent UK · Oct 21

El Salvador’s Bukele announces military operation to rescue hostages held by gangs in Haiti

El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele says he has launched a military operation to rescue four Salvadoran aviation technicians kidnapped by gangs in Haiti following an attack Sunday, threatening a more severe attack if they are not released alive and unharmed

The Guardian - UK · Oct 21

‘I never saw my son, until they handed him over in a bag’: inside El Salvador’s brutal crime crackdown

President Nayib Bukele’s campaign of mass arrest has been marked by allegations of torture and killing. Four years on, 120,000 people are still in prison

International Business Times UK · Oct 19

'We Can Send Them': Donald Trump's El Salvador Prison Plan Raises Alarming Questions Over American Citizens

Donald Trump's renewed praise of El Salvador's CECOT prison has revived scrutiny of whether convicted US citizens could be transferred there, a proposal whose legal basis remains unresolved

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The Independent UK · Oct 19

Gangs in Haiti target foreign troops in biggest attack since new force began operations

Gangs in Haiti have opened fire on an armored vehicle, leaving four soldiers from El Salvador unaccounted-for in the first major attack since an international gang suppression force began operations in the violence-wracked country

Latin Times · Oct 17

Costa Rica Opens a Mega-Prison for the Criminals Still Running Gangs From Their Cells

Costa Rica's $35M CACCO mega-prison opened Oct. 14, targeting organized crime leaders still running gangs from inside the country's overcrowded prisons.

Latin Times · Oct 15

Bukele Wants to Free Half of El Salvador's Gang Prisoners — With Strings Attached

Bukele proposes conditional release for half of El Salvador's gang prisoners — a pivot after 4 years of record incarceration and documented rights abuses.

Latin Times · Oct 15

Spain's Cox Energy Just Made El Salvador History With a Record $2.9B Infrastructure Bet

Spain's Cox Energy signed El Salvador's largest private deal ever — $2.9B in solar, gas, and water. What it means for $10.4B in annual remittances.

The Times of India · Oct 15

Woman jumped from a cruise near Greece; found alive in a lifebuoy 20 hours later

A 44-year-old woman from El Salvador was rescued after spending around 20 hours in the Ionian Sea after jumping from Royal Caribbean's Odyssey of the Seas near the Greek island of Zakynthos. The woman was found conscious inside a lifebuoy in the early hours of Saturday, October 10, after a…

The Independent UK · Oct 15

Costa Rica opens a Bukele-style mega-prison. Here's how it got here

Costa Rica has made fighting drug trafficking a main goal, inspired by El Salvador's hardline approach

Latin Times · Oct 14

Rubio and Bukele Talk Ports, China, and Cuba — What's Really at Stake for the Region

Rubio's Oct. 13 call with Bukele covered port security, Chinese influence, UN alignment, and Cuba — key signals for the U.S.-El Salvador alliance.

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