The latest poll gives the Salvadoran president an 85% approval rating, and only 1.4% of respondents believe that the concentration of power in a single figure is a problem for the country
US officials did not tell the migrants they were being sent to Central America, where authorities refused to take them in. Three are now in Venezuela and five remain in detention in the United States
The magnate’s main tool of intimidation has been tariffs, which he has leveraged to extract concessions from allied countries such as Mexico and Colombia
The former Colombian president analyzes the challenges facing the left in the region following Trump’s return: ‘Wokeism has reduced us to a kind of minority tribalism’
Though not without precedent, deporting non-citizens to third countries is now being carried out in ways that human rights groups say sidestep critical legal protections
Like Kilmar Abrego García, the Venezuelan man was sent to the Central American country despite having a court document protecting him from removal. A judge has ordered his return
The director of the Americas Division of the organization analyzes the first months of the Trump administration and says she still trusts in judicial independence to curb his immigration policies
The secretary of state, who has been steadily rising through the ranks under the orders of his former rival, is now taking over the National Security Council, meaning he will hold two roles, something only Kissinger has done before
The Nicaraguan leader reacted to a US State Department report by sharply criticizing Washington’s immigration policies, calling them ‘horrendous crimes’
Bukele’s admirers have moved beyond pilgrimages to El Salvador’s police state and are now importing its practices. But like Cuba’s ex-admirers, they might come to regret it
The mistaken expulsion of the Salvadoran to Bukele’s mega prison sparked a standoff between the administration and the judiciary and became a political weapon
Inmates of a Texas detention center say around 60 migrants were put on a bus and driven to the airport, where they were set to be deported to El Salvador
According to organizations and activists, the 32-year-old is not the only detainee whose whereabouts remain unknown. Human Rights Watch says the situation amounts to ‘forced disappearances’
This is the first time a judicial authority has dictated how the new government must use the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 to expel undocumented immigrants from the country
Organizations and experts warn of the danger of the Alien Enemies Act, which was used to justify the incarceration of 110,000 Japanese in World War Two and now, to deport migrants like Kilmar Abrego García
EL PAÍS reconstructs, based on different cases, the ordeal of the families of the immigrants sent to the Central American country from the United States amidst accusations of mass arbitrary detention and forced disappearance