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El Salvador Congress passes law taxing foreign donations to NGOs
El Salvador's Congress passed a law on Tuesday that levies a 30% tax on transactions from foreign donors to local ...
Al Jazeera English3d
El Salvador arrests prominent human rights lawyer who defends deportees
A prominent human rights lawyer known for defending immigrants deported amid United States President Donald Trump’s hardline anti-immigration policies has been arrested in El Salvador.
Los Angeles Times4d
What El Salvador’s Bukele, a hero for the American right, isn’t showing the world
President Nayib Bukele’s crackdown on gangs has brought peace to El Salvador, but the price, some Salvadorans say, has been the loss of civil liberties. “We used to be afraid of the gangs ...
Senate rejects Democratic measure to force more transparency on deportations to El Salvador
Senate Republicans have blocked a Democratic resolution to require more transparency from the Trump administration about ...
The New York Times3d
Prominent Anti-Corruption Lawyer Is Arrested in El Salvador
Mr. Chicas, a former president of El Salvador’s supreme electoral tribunal who also served as a press secretary to former President Salvador Sánchez Cerén, was arrested in February on charges ...
The Washington Post3d
Bukele’s crackdown pushes top Salvadoran journalists to flee
SAN SALVADOR — Their news site had just exposed details of Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele’s alleged deals with the country’s gangs. Now the three journalists were faced with a choice they ...
Indiatimes2d
El Salvador attorney for deported migrants is arrested: Rights group
The head lawyer of a human rights group helping the families of Venezuelan migrants imprisoned in El Salvador after being deported from the United States has been arrested, the organization and ...
El Salvador’s prison is real and horrible. It’s all a performance, too.
Carolina Miranda’s aesthetic analyses of President Donald Trump’s redesign of the Oval Office and of the “Trump Trad” ...
At least 50 migrants sent to El Salvador prison entered US legally, Cato Institute finds
At least 50 Venezuelan men who were sent to a notorious Salvadoran prison by the Trump administration had immigrated to the U ...
Rolling Stone3d
El Salvador Arrests and Disappears Prominent Human Rights Attorney
El Salvador’s National Civil Police have arrested Ruth Eleonora López, a renowned human rights and anti-corruption attorney who has become one of the nation’s most prominent critics of ...
CoinTelegraph5d
Panama City mayor teases Bitcoin reserve after meeting El Salvador's Bitcoin leaders
The mayor of Panama City seemingly advocated for a city-level Bitcoin reserve in a mysterious post after meeting two of El Salvador’s Bitcoin policy leaders this week. Panama City Mayor Mayer ...
Sun Sentinel6d
Senate rejects Democratic measure to force more transparency on deportations to El Salvador
WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Republicans have blocked a Democratic resolution to require more transparency from the Trump administration about deportations to El Salvador. The vote Thursday was the ...