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El Salvador at Center of Controversial U.S.-Venezuela Detainee Exchange
Tico Times
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July 20, 2025
Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele received the 10 Americans exchanged on Friday between Washington and Caracas for 252 Venezuelans who had spent four months in a megaprison in El Salvador, according to a video shared by the president on social...
Tears of joy as Venezuelan migrants return from Salvadoran prison 'hell'
RTL Today
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July 22, 2025
Tears of joy and relief flowed freely Tuesday as Venezuelan Maikel Olivera returned home to his mother's embrace after four months of "hell" in a Salvadoran prison. The 37-year-old is one of 252 Venezuelan migrants flown home last Friday from a...
Venezuela Investigating Mistreatment of Migrants Trump Sent to El Salvador
Mississippi Free Press
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July 22, 2025
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Venezuela’s attorney general’s office said on Monday that it has opened an investigation into El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele for alleged mistreatment and human rights violations against Venezuelan migrants. The...
‘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...
'I'm free now,' says Venezuelan singer held in El Salvador
The Gazette - Colorado
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CARACAS (Reuters) -A Venezuelan singer who spent months in a notorious prison in El Salvador returned to his family in Caracas overnight, one of the first of more than 250 former prisoners to arrive home after they were sent back to Venezuela last...
Gay asylum seeker released from El Salvador megaprison, returned to Venezuela
Reporter Newspapers - Georgia
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July 22, 2025
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Migrants were tortured in El Salvador: Venezuela
Taipei Times
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July 22, 2025
Venezuela on Monday announced a probe into torture claims by 252 migrants the US had sent to a notorious Salvadoran prison, where they said they were beaten, sexually abused and fed rotten food. Attorney General Tarek William Saab presented...
Nigel Farage Wants to Ship Britain's Worst Criminals to El Salvador – Taking a Page from Trump's Playbook?
International Business Times - United Kingdom
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July 22, 2025
Nigel Farage, leader of Reform UK, has unveiled a £17.4 billion ($23.3 billion) plan to tackle what he calls 'lawless Britain', with a controversial pledge to send serious offenders to El Salvador's notorious mega-jails. Modelled after US...
Manifiestos de vuelo revelan que casi 40 personas no identificadas fueron enviadas en tres vuelos de deportación a El Salvador
404 Media
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July 22, 2025
📄 Este artículo se publicó originalmente en inglés en julio de 2025. Lo hemos traducido al español y lo ponemos a disposición del público de forma gratuita debido al interés público en el material. This article was originally published in English...
Venezuela to probe El Salvador’s Bukele for ‘torture’ of US deportees
Yahoo News
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Venezuela has launched an investigation into the role El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele and his senior officials played in the alleged torture of 252 migrants who were detained in the Central American country after being deported from the...
Brutal El Salvador prisons would see sickos like Ian Huntley in actual CAGES – here’s how it solves Keir’s broken system
The Sun
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July 21, 2025
SO how angry were you when you learned that the sadistic child killer Ian Huntley is swanning around jail dressed in a football top like that worn by the two little girls he smothered to death? Because I confess I was close to loading up a sock...
Venezuela accuses El Salvador of torturing migrants deported by US
Yahoo Sports - Canada
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July 22, 2025
Venezuela’s Attorney General Tarek Saab said Monday his office will investigate El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele and two officials over alleged abuse of Venezuelans detained in El Salvador. The probe follows the repatriation of over 250...
Venezuela opens investigation into Bukele for serious human rights violations against those held hostage at mega-prison in El Salvador
Radio Habana Cuba
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July 21, 2025
William Saab accused Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele of personally ordering the attacks on his fellow citizens who were held hostage and disappeared in the mega-prison. Photo: EFE According to the Venezuelan Prosecutor's Office, they were...
Hunter Biden Is Rip-Snorting FURIOUS at ‘That F-n’ George Clooney, Hopes to Invade El Salvador
PJ Media - Virginia
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July 21, 2025
Hunter Biden is rip-snorting furious at your snide jokes, personal insults, and drug-related puns (he nose what you’re saying). Yeah, his father might’ve left the Oval Office, but this is no time to powder his nose and/or take a deep breath:...
Venezuelan Man Released From El Salvador After Possibly Being Deported Over Tattoo
Miami New Times - Florida
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After spending more than 120 days inside a notorious prison in El Salvador, Luis Carlos José Marcano Silva was among the scores of Venezuelan migrants released to their native country on Friday as part of a three-nation prisoner exchange. In...
Ambassador Duncan: El Salvador’s Maritime Operations Boost Regional Anti-Drug Efforts.
El Salvador in English
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July 21, 2025
President Nayib Bukele announced on social media that El Salvador’s Navy intercepted a low-profile vessel (LPV) 600 nautical miles southwest of El Cordoncillo inlet in the Estero de Jaltepeque. Onboard were three drug traffickers—two Ecuadorians...
From El Salvador’s CECOT Prison to His Family’s Arms
Documented - New York
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July 21, 2025
After spending 125 days in El Salvador’s notorious Centro de Confinamiento del Terrorismo (CECOT) prison, Merwil Gutiérrez, a 20-year-old asylum seeker detained in the Bronx, was released last Friday to Venezuela with more than 200 other...
Violent UK offenders could be sent to El Salvador under Farage crime crackdown
Sky News
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July 21, 2025
Nigel Farage has said violent UK offenders could be jailed overseas under his plans to cut crime by half. The Reform UK leader named El Salvador as a likely destination, though he said he has not held conversations with officials there and...
How Does Farage Want To Protect The UK From 'Collapse'? By Sending Prisoners To El Salvador, Of Course
HuffPost UK
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July 21, 2025
Reform UK leader Nigel Farage attends a press conference on the economy and renewable energy, in London, Wednesday, Feb. 12, 2025. Nigel Farage has a brand new plan to help save Britain from “societal collapse”, apparently. In a press conference,...
El Salvador frees jailed Venezuelans in US prison deal
RTE Ireland
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July 19, 2025
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 high-profile ordeal. The 252 men were...