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El Salvador’s War on Gangs Changes the NGO Landscape: Cristosal Bows Out.
El Salvador in English
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July 17, 2025
Cristosal, a globalist NGO known for its political involvement in Central America, announced this morning that it is closing its operations in El Salvador. The decision coincides with the implementation of new fiscal regulations for...
Advances made in fight to win freedom for Abrego García
The Militant
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August 2, 2025
The fight to win freedom and the right to remain in the U.S. for Kilmar Abrego García, a SMART union sheet metal worker from Beltsville, Maryland, is being watched closely by workers and others across the country. García and members of his family...
Venezuela releases jailed Americans in exchange for migrants deported to El Salvador by US
News Tribune - Missouri
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July 20, 2025
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) -- Venezuela on Friday released 10 jailed U.S. citizens and permanent residents in exchange for getting home scores of migrants deported by the United States to El Salvador months ago under the Trump administration's...
One Trump enabler has done more damage than the rest of them combined
AlterNet
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August 2, 2025
John Roberts came to the U.S. Supreme Court professing the best of intentions. In his 2005 Senate confirmation hearing, he promised to serve as chief justice in the fashion of a baseball umpire, calling only “balls and strikes, and not to pitch or...
Bukele Is Running El Salvador With Zero Tolerance for Corruption.
El Salvador in English
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July 20, 2025
President Nayib Bukele has reaffirmed his commitment to clean governance, stating that his legacy is not only about transforming El Salvador but also about being remembered as “the president who didn’t steal or allow corruption.” The statement,...
‘We Know What’s Coming: Exile or Prison’ – Salvadoran Journalist Óscar Martínez on Surviving Bukele’s Crackdown
The Good Men Project - California
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July 26, 2025
By Committee to Protect Journalists This interview was originally published by the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) on June 4, 2025. An edited version is being republished on Global Voices under a content partnership agreement. Journalists...
Families welcome Venezuelans released from El Salvador with joy, grief
The Guam Daily Post
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Angela Leal went to bed Thursday and recited the prayer she has whispered to herself each night for the last four months. She asked God to keep her husband safe, to give him strength and to bring him home. The next morning, she woke to the answer...
The IMF says El Salvador lied about its BTC purchases
Cryptopolitan
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July 19, 2025
In a recent report, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) stated that El Salvador has not purchased any Bitcoin since December of last year. The Central American country’s Bitcoin Office has published regular updates on X, claiming that El...
Migrants locked up in notorious El Salvador jail released in Venezuela-US prisoner swap
Sky News
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July 19, 2025
On Friday, Paolo Paiva waited in a hotel near Caracas airport, nervous but giddy with excitement to be reunited with her brother, finally. For five months, Arturo Suarez has been detained in a notorious prison in El Salvador. "I am going to wait...
Makeup artist is one of the US deportees sent from El Salvador to Venezuela, congressman says
Associated Press
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July 19, 2025
WASHINGTON (AP) — Andry Hernández Romero, a makeup artist from Venezuela who was deported to El Salvador by the Trump administration and held in a notorious mega-prison, was among the scores of migrants sent back to Venezuela in a three-nation...
Americans freed as El Salvador sends back Venezuelan migrants deported from the United States
Deutsche Welle
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July 18, 2025
El Salvador on Friday repatriated all Venezuelan migrants deported from the United States as part of a prisoner exchange with Venezuela. In return, Venezuela freed "political prisoners" and all American citizens it had been holding. "As was...
World News | US Sends 250 Deportees to Venezuela from El Salvador in Exchange for 10 Americans
Latestly
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July 19, 2025
Washington DC [US], July 19 (ANI): The Trump administration completed a large-scale prisoner swap with Venezuela on Friday (local time), sending about 250 Venezuelans who had been deported and imprisoned in El Salvador back to their home country...
Shackled and paraded, now home: El Salvador frees 252 Venezuelan migrants in US prisoner swap
Malay Mail
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July 19, 2025
MAIQUETÍA (Venezuela), July 19 — Hundreds of Venezuelans swept up in Donald Trump’s immigration dragnet were abruptly freed from a maximum security Salvadoran jail and sent home as part of a prisoner swap yesterday, ending a months-long...
Venezuela releases jailed Americans in deal that frees migrants deported to El Salvador by US
Penn Live - Pennsylvania
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July 18, 2025
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Venezuela released 10 jailed Americans Friday in exchange for getting home scores of migrants deported by the United States to El Salvador months ago under the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown. The resolution...
10 Americans are freed by Venezuela in a prisoner swap for migrants in El Salvador
WSIU - Illinois
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July 18, 2025
Updated July 18, 2025 at 5:35 PM CDT BOGOTÁ, Colombia — Venezuela has freed 10 Americans in exchange for Venezuelans whom the United States had sent to a prison in El Salvador, the U.S. and Salvadoran governments said Friday. In a statement,...
Venezuela frees 10 Americans in swap for deported migrants in El Salvador
Al Jazeera
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July 18, 2025
An international deal has been struck that has allowed Venezuelans deported from the United States and imprisoned in El Salvador to return to their home country, in exchange for the release of American citizens and political prisoners held in...
Venezuela’s Moral Victory: Rescuing 252 Migrants from El Salvador
teleSUR
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July 18, 2025 Hour: 4:31 pm On Friday, July 18, Venezuela marked a significant triumph with the arrival of a group of migrants previously deported from the United States and subsequently detained in El Salvador. This cohort, comprised of 252...
El Salvador's president fires back at Hunter's 'invasion' threat with cocaine jab
Fox News
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Greg Gutfeld and the panel highlight Hunter Biden's recent podcast interview where he dropped multiple expletives on 'Gutfeld!' NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele responded late Monday to having his...
Trump admin loses track of 'dozens' of illegal migrants on El Salvador deportation flight
Daily Mail
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July 18, 2025
Hacked data from an airline carrying out President Donald Trump's deportations allegedly shows that 'dozens' of migrants did not appear on manifests published by the U.S. government. The hacked material, first obtained by 404 Media, reportedly...
CECOT Family Members Rejoice and Worry as Relatives Finally Leave El Salvador
TPM – Talking Points Memo
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July 18, 2025
Once Angie Gonzalez started to hear rumors that her husband might finally leave CECOT this week, she stopped being able to sleep. She got out of bed at 4 a.m. on Friday morning and has spent the day glued to a computer screen, watching online...