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El Salvador Abolishes Presidential Term Limits, Allowing Another Bukele Run

El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele secured the right to seek indefinite re-election on Thursday after his party-controlled Congress approved a sweeping constitutional reform that also extends presidential terms from five to six years.

International Business Times

El Salvador Parliament Adopts Reform To Allow Bukele To Run Indefinitely

El Salvador's lawmakers on Thursday adopted a constitutional reform to abolish presidential term limits and allow current leader Nayib Bukele -- who enjoys overwhelming majority support in parliament -- to run indefinitely.

International Business Times

US placed on rights watchlist over health of its civil society under Trump

International non-profit Civicus says ‘sustained attacks on civic freedoms’ put US on par with El Salvador and Kenya

The Guardian - US

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First Thing: Famine under way in Gaza, UN-backed experts say

It comes as Donald Trump reduced deadline for Russia to move towards ending Ukraine war. Plus, eastern US swelters in heatwave

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‘Cemetery of the living dead’: Venezuelans recall 125 days in notorious El Salvador prison

Arturo Suárez and others deported in Trump’s anti-immigrant crackdown describe dire conditions at Cecot

The Guardian - UK

Justice Department files misconduct complaint against federal judge handling deportation case

The Justice Department has filed a misconduct complaint against the federal judge who has clashed with President Donald Trump’s administration over deportations to a notorious prison in El Salvador

The Independent UK

Democrat urges hearing into ‘human rights abuses’ at El Salvador megaprison

Delia Ramirez calls for investigation into federal funds paid to El Salvador to detain migrants at secretive Cecot site

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Another Venezuelan Recounts Sexual Abuse Experienced In El Salvador's Infamous Prison After Being Released: 'I Didn't Want To Eat'

More testimonies are emerging of abuses suffered by Venezuelans taken to El Salvador's infamous CECOT prison by the Trump administration and recently released to Venezuela after a prisoner exchange

Latin Times

'Welcome To Hell': Freed Migrants Tell Of Horrors In Salvadoran Jail

Mervin Yamarte left Venezuela with his younger brother, hoping for a better life.

International Business Times

Men freed from El Salvador mega-prison endured ‘state-sanctioned torture’, lawyers say

Venezuelans back home under Maduro-Trump deal tell of isolation, beatings and dirty water – ‘a living nightmare’

The Guardian - US

Deported Venezuelan man files abuse complaint against the US government

Neiyerver Adrian Leon Rengel says he was falsely accused of being a gang member and beaten in an El Salvador prison.

Al Jazeera

Labor rights group asks El Salvador's supreme court to strike down contentious 'foreign agents' law

A labor rights group in El Salvador has asked the Supreme Court to strike down a controversial “foreign agents” law

The Independent UK

Migrant sent to El Salvador prison by the Trump administration says he was beaten by guards

A migrant from Venezuela deported by the Trump administration to El Salvador has taken the first step toward suing the U.S. government

The Independent UK

Migrant deported to notorious El Salvador prison demands $1.3M from Trump administration after savage beatings, vile conditions and 24-hour confinement

First legal action after Venezuelans released from CECOT details ‘physical, verbal and psychological’ abuse inside

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Venezuelans deported by Trump to El Salvador describe ‘horror movie’ mega-prison

Men recently reunited with loved ones in their home country detail months of abuse at the facility

Latin Times

Chevron Allowed To Resume Operations In Venezuela Days After Release Of American Detainees

The Trump administration has allowed Chevron to resume operations in Venezuela. The development comes days after an agreement that saw the release of 10 American detainees in the South American country and the return of some 250 Venezuelans detained in El Salvador

Latin Times

DACA Recipient Set to Be Deported to El Salvador After Missing Freeway Exit: Report

A man who missed his freeway exit and accidentally crossed into Mexico will be deported to El Salvador after he was unable to pay a bribe allegedly demanded by CPB.

Al Jazeera

US court decisions allow for Abrego Garcia’s release, bar his deportation

Trump officials have indicated they plan to deport Abrego Garcia to a third-party country if he is released from jail.

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The Guardian - US

Kilmar Ábrego García must be released from jail as he awaits trial, judge rules

Lawyers for man wrongfully deported to El Salvador in March describe human smuggling charges as ‘preposterous’

The Guardian - US

Ex-marine convicted of killing three people released to US in prisoner swap

Dahud Hanid Ortiz, convicted in Venezuela of triple homicide in Madrid, is one of 10 US nationals flown to Texas

Latin Times

Trump Administration May Face Contempt Over Deportation of Venezuelan Asylum Seeker

Federal attorneys representing a 20-year-old Venezuelan asylum seeker are seeking criminal contempt proceedings against the Trump administration for violating a court order that barred his deportation.

Latin Times

'I Felt Like An Animal': Venezuelan Men Imprisoned Recount Horrors At El Salvador's Infamous Prison

Over 200 Venezuelan men who were sent to a mega-prison in El Salvador were sent back to their home country earlier this week. Now, they are telling their stories.

Latin Times

Group Of Americans Returned From Venezuela In Prisoner Exchange Includes Perpetrator Of a Triple Murder

Among the 10 Americans taken to the U.S. as part of an exchange for Venezuelan nationals held in El Salvador there is a perpetrator of a triple murder

The Independent UK

El Salvador's new wave of political exiles say history is repeating itself

Fear has long simmered among critics of President Nayib Bukele’s concentration of power in El Salvador

The Independent UK

Venezuela's returning migrants allege abuses in El Salvador's 'hell' prison where US sent them

Venezuelan migrants imprisoned for months in El Salvador under a U.S. immigration crackdown have reunited with their families

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