Today, El Salvador has the lowest homicide rate ... Those convicted of crimes would be held in prisons like CECOT. "We have offered the United States of America the opportunity to outsource ...

El Salvador President Nayib Bukele on a post on X (formerly Twitter): "We are willing to take in only convicted criminals (including convicted U.S. citizens) into our mega-prison (CECOT ...

While the U.S. criminal justice system is far from perfect, addressing its shortcomings requires reform, not abdication of ...

The American government has not yet said whether it plans to go ahead with sending U.S. prisoners to El Salvador, but Elon Musk, the tech billionaire who Trump has appointed to run the Department of ...

Bukele’s government has arrested more than 84,000 people, sometimes without due process, since 2022 as part of his crackdown ...

El Salvador is agreeing to accept from the United States about 300 alleged members of a Venezuelan gang for one year.

Bukele said he would charge the United States a "relatively low" fee to house convicted criminals in El Salvador's Terrorism Confinement Center, or CECOT, a mega-prison built to hold up to 40,000 ...

Even before the campaign against gangs, El Salvador’s prisons were notoriously violent and overcrowded but the crown jewel of Bukele’s fight is the Terrorism Confinement Center, or CECOT ...

President Trump had been preparing this week to speed up the process by invoking a war-time authority to deport the criminal ...

El Salvador’s president, Nayib Bukele, has offered to house in Salvadoran prisons U.S.-deported immigrants of any nationality ...

When U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio visited El Salvador in early February to meet with Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele ...