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Inside the brutal El Salvador jail that's packed with 67,000 prisoners where 153 died

Four woman were among the 153 convicts to have died while in El Salvadorean state custody since officials began locking thousands of members of its powerful street gangs in mega jails across the Central American country

Daily Mirror

Report: At least 153 people arrested under special powers have died in Salvadoran prisons

At least 153 people jailed since El Salvador instituted emergency powers in March 2022 to confront the country’s powerful street gangs have died in state custody

The Independent UK

At least 153 died in custody in El Salvador’s gang crackdown – report

Human rights group’s 107-page report details human cost of President Nayib Bukele’s controversial ‘war on gangs’

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At least 12 people dead after crowd crush at football stadium in El Salvador

At least 12 people have died and more than 100 were injured in a crush at the Estadio Cuscatlán in San Salvador, the nation’s capital

The Guardian - UK

El Salvador Stadium stampede leaves at least 12 dead as President warns culprits 'will not go unpunished'

The match in the Central American country's capital was suspended as disaster struck.

Daily Record

Strike expands Bitcoin payments to 65 countries, moves global headquarters to El Salvador

The Jack-Mallers led Lightning app says it can now support nearly 3 billion people globally.

Fortune

In El Salvador, transgender community struggles for rights and survival

Transgender people in El Salvador face violence and discrimination in their deeply religious country

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El Salvador forces surround town in north after police killing

El Salvador has deployed at least 5,000 soldiers and 500 police to surround a town in the northwest of the country in a push to arrest those responsible for the suspected gang killing of a police officer, President Nayib Bukele said on Wednesday.

Reuters

‘They found hell’: innocent foreigners caught in El Salvador’s mass arrests

Rights groups say thousands of innocent people are being caught up in gang crackdown

The Guardian - US

El Salvador tries ex-leader Funes in absentia for gang truce

El Salvador opened a trial Wednesday against former President Mauricio Funes alleging that he had negotiated a truce with the country’s powerful street gangs when he was president, but the trial will proceed without Funes who lives in Nicaragua

The Independent UK

The new mobile game inspired by El Salvador's brutal crackdown on gangs

El Salvador. 'PCT: Extracción' had 10k Google Play Store downloads in its first week

Manchester Evening News

El Salvador news outlet relocates to Costa Rica to avoid Bukele’s crackdown

El Faro moves its headquarters to avoid ‘fabricated accusations’ after 25 years reporting on drug wars, crime and corruption

The Guardian - US

Salvadoran lawmakers pass tech tax cut, including for AI businesses

El Salvador's ruling party lawmakers approved late Tuesday a bill to eliminate for 15 years taxes on companies developing artificial intelligence (AI) and other computer programming work in a bid to make the country a more attractive tech destination.

Reuters

Human rights body urges El Salvador to restore civil rights

A regional human rights body implored El Salvador's government on Thursday to reverse a year-long suspension of constitutional rights that form part of a sweeping anti-gang crackdown enacted last year and credited with sharply reducing violent crime.

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Donald Trump’s arraignment: How the world reacted

Photos of former US President Donald Trump as he appeared in court covered the front pages of most international papers.

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Salvadorans demand release of innocents jailed in anti-gang sweep

Several hundred people in El Salvador took to the streets on Tuesday to protest the year-long anti-gang policies of President Nayib Bukele, many demanding the release of relatives they say have been unjustly caught up in the sweeping dragnet.

The Independent UK

El Salvador marks its first year under anti-gang crackdown

The Central American nation of El Salvador has finished a full year under anti-gang emergency measures that were originally supposed to last only a month

Reuters

El Salvador president readies bill to eliminate taxes on tech

El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele said on Thursday he will send to the country's Congress next week a bill to eliminate all taxes on technology innovations as well as computing and communications hardware manufacturing.

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The Independent UK

War on gangs forges new El Salvador. But the price is steep

One year ago, President Nayib Bukele suspended constitutional rights and started an all-out offensive on gangs

The Independent UK

War on gangs forges new El Salvador. But the price is steep.

One year ago, President Nayib Bukele suspended constitutional rights and started an all-out offensive on gangs

Daily Mirror

Inside mega prison hellhole as thousands of gangsters forced to sleep on metal shelves

El Salvador has had a problem with gang-related violence for decades, but the South American country's new President Nayib Bukele has promised a crackdown on crime, and has already rounded up 63,000 gangsters and thrown most in jail

The Independent UK

El Salvador: 2,000 more to prison, vows will 'never return'

El Salvador's government has sent 2,000 more suspects to a new prison built especially for gang members, and the justice minister vows that “they will never return” to the streets

Financial Times

Inside El Salvador’s mega prison: the jail giving inmates less space than livestock

FT analysis finds 40,000 detainees would have just 0.6 sq metres of cell space each in ‘city of crime’

Daily Mirror

Mega-prison in El Salvador where 40,000 suspected gangsters crammed in side by side

Reuters

El Salvador begins transfers to 'mega prison' amid gang crackdown

El Salvador's government moved thousands of suspected gang members to a newly opened "mega prison" on Friday, the latest step in a controversial crackdown on crime that has caused the Central American nation's prison population to soar.

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