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HRC59: Amidst ongoing state of emergency, El Salvador must review legality of mass detentions
International Service for Human Rights
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July 10, 2025
On 30 June, Leonor Arteaga, representative of Fundacion Para el Debido Proceso (DPLF), delivered a joint statement with ISHR for the adoption of El Salvador’s Universal Periodic Review (UPR). Arteaga urged the Salvadoran government to establish an...
El Salvador Recalls Ambassador to Mexico Over Drug Plane Allegations
The Epoch Times
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July 10, 2025
Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele speaks during a news conference in San Salvador, El Salvador, on Feb. 4, 2024. Jose Luis Gonzalez/Reuters Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele said on July 9 that he was recalling El Salvador’s ambassador to Mexico...
How the Mexican security minister’s slip of the tongue rankled Salvadoran President Bukele
Mexico News Daily
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July 10, 2025
An apparently innocent mistake escalated into something of an international incident on Wednesday. Security Minister Omar García Harfuch’s declaration on Tuesday that a plane carrying more than 400 kilograms of cocaine came to Mexico from El...
ICE Nabs MS-13 ‘Kingpin’ in Nebraska; Fugitive Among El Salvador’s Most Wanted
[your]NEWS
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July 10, 2025
Agents apprehend two high-ranking gang members accused of ordering murders, trafficking, and terror operations in U.S. heartland. By yourNEWS Media Newsroom Federal agents with Immigration and Customs Enforcement have arrested a man in Omaha,...
El Salvador Rejects Mexico’s Claims
MENAFN
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July 10, 2025
(MENAFN) El Salvador’s president is strongly refuting Mexico’s assertions that a plane carrying cocaine departed from his nation prior to being seized in Mexican airspace. Omar Garcia Harfuch, the head of Mexico’s security, announced at a press...
Democrats Move to Sanction El Salvador For ‘Gross Violations’ of Human Rights — President Bukele Laughs in Their Face
The Gateway Pundit
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July 10, 2025
Nayib Bukele El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele is clearly not cowed by the Democratic Party blowhards in the Senate. Sens. Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) and Tim Kaine (D-VA) recently introduced legislation aimed at sanctioning Bukele and top...
Joran van der Sloot may go to notorius El Salvador prison
NL Times
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July 10, 2025
Dutch murder convict Joran van der Sloot may be transferred from Peru to a notorious and vast prison complex in El Salvador, De Telegraaf reported based on information from crime journalist John van den Heuvel and a letter by the Dutchman. Peru...
'Just Salty': El Salvador President Bukele Mocks Senate Democrats Over Bitcoin Scrutiny
Decrypt
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July 9, 2025
In brief U.S. Democratic senators want to investigate El Salvador's government. But Salvadoran president Nayib Bukele mocked the politicians' bill in a social media post. U.S. authorities are concerned about alleged crypto corruption in the...
Texas Country Music Artist Josh Weathers Raises Over $430,000 During Virtual Benefit Concert For Flood Victims Just 48 Hours After The Disaster
Whiskey Riff
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July 10, 2025
Country music can change the world… just ask Texas country artist Josh Weathers. Much like the Carolinas were hit hard with flash flooding in September of last year, South-central Texas was ravaged by flash flooding over the 4th of July weekend....
How to Watch Wimbledon Mixed Doubles Final: Live Stream Verbeek & Siniakova vs Salisbury & Stefani, TV Channel
Newsweek
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July 10, 2025
By Ben Verbrugge is a freelance sportswriter with a journalism degree from CSU Dominguez Hills. He is a member of the Los Angeles media and spends most of his time covering the NBA, NFL, and MLB. When not writing, he is either playing or watching...
Downey Arts Coalition artist deported to El Salvador
The Downey Patriot - California
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Patricia Bonilla, a Long Beach visual artist who routinely exhibits with the Downey Arts Coalition, has been deported to El Salvador despite being a permanent resident and having a green card. According to the Los Angeles based art curator Dulche...
El Salvador says US has legal jurisdiction over migrants deported to CECOT
Straight Arrow News
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The question of who holds legal jurisdiction over 140 Venezuelan migrants deported from the U.S. to El Salvador’s high-security CECOT prison remains unresolved, with court filings from both governments offering conflicting explanations. In its...
Dueling U.S. Efforts Botched a Deal to Swap Venezuelans Held in El Salvador for Americans
The Spokesman-Review - Washington State
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The Trump administration’s top diplomat, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, was overseeing a deal to free several Americans and dozens of political prisoners held in Venezuela in exchange for sending home about 250 Venezuelan migrants the United...
Abrego Garcia Attorneys, DOJ Seek to Block Release of Evidence to Media Outlets in Protective Order
The Star News Network
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July 10, 2025
The attorneys representing Kilmar Abrego Garcia in Tennessee said in a Tuesday legal filing that they reached an agreement for the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) to begin sharing evidence as District Court Judge Waverly Crenshaw has instructed...
El Salvador Projects Lowest Homicide Rate in Its History — Crime No Longer a Structural Phenomenon.
El Salvador in English
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July 8, 2025
El Salvador is on the verge of achieving one of the most impressive public safety milestones in recent global history: a projected homicide rate of less than 1 per 100,000 inhabitants by the end of 2025, following a decade of determined and...
El Salvador kneecapped Trump's claim over deported migrants: 'Not been honest'
Raw Story
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July 8, 2025
President Donald Trump's administration controls the fate of migrants it has deported to other countries like El Salvador, officials claimed in a court filing on Monday. The claims contradict the Trump administration's position that it has no...
UN Document Exposes White House Lies About El Salvador Prison Scheme
National Memo
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July 8, 2025
El Salvador has informed the United Nations that it holds no legal responsibility for the more than 200 Venezuelan men whom President Donald Trump ordered to be sent to its maximum-security Terrorism Confinement Center (CECOT) prison earlier this...
Journalist detained by ICE in Atlanta appeals for help from El Salvador
FOX 5 Atlanta - Georgia
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Mario Guevara. FOX 5 Atlanta image ATLANTA - Salvadoran journalist Mario Guevara, currently being held in federal detention in Atlanta following an arrest during a protest in DeKalb County, has issued a public plea for help, claiming he is the...
El Salvador’s environmentalists lament reversal on mining ban, as companies circle
Dialogo Chino
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July 7, 2025
In December 2024, El Salvador’s congress reversed an historic ruling on metal mining to reauthorise the activity in the country, seven years after it became the first nation in the world to explicitly ban it. Gold mining has a particularly long...
El Salvador Arrests Bitcoin Developer Over Neighbour Altercation
MENAFN
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July 7, 2025
(MENAFN- The Arabian Post) Bitcoin Core developer Jon Atack was briefly arrested in El Salvador this weekend after his neighbour lodged a complaint stemming from a heated dispute over property boundaries. Police detained Atack under a statute...