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How has 'world's coolest dictator' Bukele consolidated power?
The Standard
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El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele salutes during the military parade in downtown San Salvador on June 1, 2024. [AFP] El Salvador has abruptly changed its constitution to remove term limits, paving the way for self-styled "world's coolest...
Dozens Disappeared on El Salvador Deportation Trips, Flight Logs Reveal
Truthout
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July 18, 2025
Truthout is a vital news source and a living history of political struggle. If you think our work is valuable, support us with a donation of any size. “These were disappearances,” said one immigrant rights expert of the revelation that dozens of...
Democrats press Trump administration on US deal with El Salvador to detain migrants
ABC News - New York
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July 18, 2025
Recent court filings suggest the Trump administration "misled federal judges, Congress, and the American people" about a deal between the U.S. and El Salvador to detain over 200 Venezuelan migrants at the notorious mega-prison known as CECOT, four...
Bukele ends term limits, embraces ‘dictator’ label
Taipei Times
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August 2, 2025
Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele, who can now seek unlimited reelection following a constitutional change, embraces the moniker of “dictator” and breezily shrugs off concerns about human rights transgressions. Critics fear Thursday’s...
Portugal Event Opens Doors for Salvadoran Rum in European Markets.
El Salvador in English
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July 25, 2025
Members of the Diplomatic Corps in Portugal, private sector representatives, and media professionals recently experienced the quality of Salvadoran rum during a cultural event hosted by the Institute for the Promotion of Latin America and the...
'Horror Story': Flight Logs Reveal Dozens Disappeared on El Salvador Deportation Trips
Common Dreams
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July 17, 2025
"These were disappearances," said one immigrant rights expert of the revelation that dozens of people who have never been acknowledged by the Trump administration were listed on flight manifests for three deportation flights from Texas to El...
Analysis of Nayib Bukele’s El Salvador: utopian fantasy, censorship, and repression
Metro World News
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July 17, 2025
The news coming from El Salvador, governed by Nayib Bukele, raises significant questions. On one hand, important non-governmental organizations denounce human rights violations, the dismantling of democratic institutions, the shrinking of public...
Liberal NGO Flees El Salvador Amid Law-And-Order Crackdown
The Daily Caller
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Cristosal, El Salvador’s leading human rights organization, announced Friday it’s withdrawing from the country after what it described as intensifying government harassment and legal threats. Noah Bullock, the group’s executive director, said...
Emboldened by Trump, El Salvador’s president has jailed critics. Now journalists and human rights leaders are fleeing en masse
The Spokesman-Review - Washington State
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MEXICO CITY — They have fled to Guatemala, Mexico, Costa Rica and Spain. Most left in a hurry with few possessions, unsure of when — or whether — they would be able to return home. As El Salvador cracks down on dissent, jailing critics of...
Top anti-corruption group flees El Salvador amid government crackdown
Al Jazeera
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July 17, 2025
The rights group Cristosal says it has evacuated staff from El Salvador amid pressure from President Nayib Bukele. The El Salvador human rights and anti-corruption watchdog Cristosal says it has relocated its operations outside the country, as the...
T&T U-15s near last ditch solution for Concacaf tourney, two US-based players in 18-man squad
Wired 868
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August 2, 2025
Trinidad and Tobago will get to Aruba two days late for the Concacaf Under-15 Championship. But, crucially, they will be in time for kick off in their opening Group E encounter against Barbados in League B. And perhaps the most important thing is...
Why dozens of journalists and human rights leaders are fleeing El Salvador
Yahoo News
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They have fled to Guatemala, Mexico, Costa Rica and Spain. Most left in a hurry with few possessions, unsure of when — or whether — they would be able to return home. As El Salvador cracks down on dissent, jailing critics of President Nayib...
World News | El Salvador's Top Human Rights Group Flees President Bukele's Ongoing Crackdown on Dissent
Latestly
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July 17, 2025
Mexico City, Jul 17 (AP) El Salvador's top human rights organisation, Cristosal, announced Thursday it is leaving the country because of mounting harassment and legal threats by the government of President Nayib Bukele. The organization has been...
Flight Manifests Reveal Dozens of Previously Unknown People on Three Deportation Flights to El Salvador
404 Media
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July 17, 2025
The flight manifests for three legally contested deportation flights from Texas to El Salvador contain dozens of additional, unaccounted for passengers than a previously published Department of Homeland Security (DHS) list of people deported from...
Human Rights Defenders Are Fleeing El Salvador as Bukele Cracks Down
Rolling Stone
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July 17, 2025
In early June, a career journalist in El Salvador received a call from a government source. Their name was on a list of more than a dozen individuals the administration of President Nayib Bukele planned to have arrested. “I left the country the...
Emboldened by his alliance with Trump, Bukele is jailing critics in El Salvador. Journalists and human rights leaders are fleeing in droves
Los Angeles Times
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July 17, 2025
MEXICO CITY — They have fled to Guatemala, Mexico, Costa Rica and Spain. Most left in a hurry with few possessions, unsure of when — or whether — they would be able to return home. As El Salvador cracks down on dissent, jailing critics of...
The Legal Fig Leaf: The US-El Salvador Detainee Diplomatic Notes
Just Security
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July 17, 2025
The U.S. State Department has now declassified (from the level of “confidential”) and publicly released the text of three documents pertaining to the “dirty deal” between the United States and El Salvador for the transfer and indefinite detention...
Houston’s La Pupusa Loca Is Celebrating 40 Years of Salvadoran Flavor
Houstonia - Texas
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La Pupusa Loca is known for its delicious, large meals like this 10-inch pupusa packed with cheese, pork, beans, chicken, beef, squash, and loroco, an edible flower native to El Salvador. Ernesto Larin was living in Los Angeles in the 1980s when...
Texas judge dismisses case against migrant deported to El Salvador for being an alleged gang member
WFAA 8 - Texas
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July 17, 2025
DPS troopers labeled Pedro Luis Salazar-Cuervo a Venezuelan Tren de Aragua gang member based on a photo of him with a tattooed man. TEXAS, USA — This article was originally published by our content partners at the Texas Tribune. Read the original...
Matt Gaetz shares travel endorsement and commentary via social media posts
Emerald Coast Times - Florida
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July 25, 2025
Congressman Matt Gaetz | Clerk U.S. House of RepresentativesCongressman Matt Gaetz | Clerk U.S. House of Representatives Former Congressman Matt Gaetz, who has represented Florida’s 1st district in the U.S. Congress since 2017, posted a series of...