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Sacramento Funeral Home Sued for Sending Wrong Body to Family in El Salvador

The family of Francisco Quintanilla is suing La Paz Funeral Services for sending them the wrong body for an open-casket funeral in in their home country of El Salvador.

Latin Times

‘They turned our home into a cemetery’: the high price of El Salvador’s Bitcoin City dream

Mangroves are being destroyed and residents displaced to make way for an airport to serve president Nayib Bukele’s vision of a tax-free economic hub

The Guardian - UK

In El Salvador, A River Without Fish Feeds Fear Of Mining

El Salvador's San Sebastian river has no fish. In the community of Santa Rosa de Lima, a two-hour drive from the capital San Salvador, wastewater still flows directly into the San Sebastian river from a nearby hill where a gold mine operated for 100 years until 2006.

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Nayib Bukele Says El Salvador Will Keep Buying Bitcoin Despite IMF Deal, Draws Criticism

Nayib Bukele is under fire among Bitcoiners and prominent figures in the crypto industry after he insisted that El Salvador will not halt its strategic Bitcoin reserve even if the IMF's funding deal clearly states that the country is prohibited from buying $BTC throughout the funding program's duration.

International Business Times

Strange 2,400-year-old puppets with ‘dramatic facial expressions’ discovered atop pyramid

Findings contradict notion of El Salvador being isolated in ancient times

The Independent UK

2,400-year-old puppets with 'dramatic facial expression' discovered atop pyramid in El Salvador

These striking puppets suggest that Indigenous people in what is now El Salvador had rituals that were more connected to the rest of Central American culture than previously thought.

LiveScience

Heart and sole: the Salvadorian shoemaker catering to Melbourne’s well-heeled

José Rodríguez gets ‘a special kind of feeling’ from his craft, derived from the fact ‘that someone else is happy’ with his work

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A look at the 8 Latin American crime groups designated as terrorist organizations by the US

The United States government is formally designating eight Latin American organized crime groups that also operate in the U_S_ to be “foreign terrorist organizations.”

The Independent UK

Bukele-mania: El Salvador strongman’s crime clampdown excites regional right

Marco Rubio heaped praise on a president who has jailed thousands with few legal niceties – but can work his model work elsewhere in Latin America beset by gang violence?

The Guardian - US

As The U.S. Reportedly Considers El Salvador's Proposal To Hold Migrant Criminals, Experts Analyze Whether It's Legal

Bukele offered to house violent U.S. and migrant criminals in his prison system, in "extraordinary" gesture. But experts doubt the move would hold up in court.

Latin Times

Parole Agent Lures Transgender Woman Out of Her Home Where ICE Agents Were Waiting to Arrest Her: Report

ICE agents arrested a transgender woman in California who had served time for murder after a parole agent lured her outside, raising concerns over deceptive tactics and the dangers she faces if deported to El Salvador.

Latin Times

Guatemala To Accept Deportees From US, Increase Flights

Guatemala and El Salvador agree to accept U.S. deportees, with increased flights and border security measures. Rubio's diplomatic trip addresses immigratio...

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ICE Detains El Salvador Man Wanted For Sex Crimes

ICE detains Francisco Javier Melendez Torres in Philadelphia for sex crimes in El Salvador, emphasizing the importance of immigration enforcement.

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El Salvador Offers To House U.S. Criminals

El Salvador offers to house U.S. criminals to ease prison system burden, sparking legal concerns.

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Trump Backs Jailing Americans In El Salvador If Has 'Legal Right

El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele, who has carried out a sweeping crackdown on crime, offered the use of a maximum-security prison, Latin America's largest, when he met Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Monday.

The Independent UK

Trump would be ‘very happy’ to send ‘homegrowns’ to El Salvador’s prisons. It’s ‘incredibly illegal’

Immigration law experts and constitutional scholars are warning against the president’s threat to exile citizens in foreign jails

The Independent UK

El Salvador wants to detain deportees, including U.S. citizens, in notorious 'tropical gulag' terror prison

Facility has been accused of inhumane conditions, torture, and arbitrary detention

The Independent UK

El Salvador’s offer to take in US deportees and violent criminals is unlike any other migrant deal

El Salvador has offered to take in people deported from the U.S. for entering the country illegally as well as the country’s violent criminals — even if they’re American citizens

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International Business Times

Trump Backs Jailing Americans In El Salvador If Has 'Legal Right'

President Donald Trump on Tuesday backed an offer by El Salvador to take in prisoners -- including US citizens -- despite clear legal problems with such an outsourcing under American law.

The Guardian - US

Trump administration says it has begun deporting migrants to Guantánamo Bay

Press secretary says at least two deportation flights to Cuban base of undocumented immigrants ‘under way’

The Independent UK

What to know about El Salvador's mega-prison after Trump deal to send people there

The Trump administration and the president of El Salvador said they struck a deal allowing the U.S. to ship detained migrants and imprisoned criminals to a mega-prison there

The Independent UK

Soldiers from El Salvador join U.N.-backed mission in Haiti to combat gang violence

Seventy soldiers from El Salvador arrived in Haiti on Tuesday to support a U.N.-backed mission led by Kenyan police to help fight gangs that killed thousands of people last year and control much of the capital

The Guardian - US

El Salvador offers to hold deportees and incarcerated US citizens in its jails

Human rights groups alarmed as Marco Rubio, US secretary of state, meets with Nayib Bukele during overseas trip

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Secretary Of State Rubio Focuses On Immigration In Costa Rica

Secretary of State Rubio addresses immigration, USAID changes, and El Salvador's offer to host U.S. deportees.

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El Salvador Offers To House Violent U.S. Criminals and Deportees

Yet its penitentiary centers are already running at over 300 percent capacity.

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