Bukele said he would charge the United States a "relatively low" fee to house convicted criminals in El Salvador's Terrorism Confinement Center, or CECOT, a mega-prison built to hold up to 40,000 ...

As Donald Trump starts his second term, his administration’s robust approach to Latin America raises concerns about the ...

Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele offered to let Trump move immigrants who are imprisoned in the U.S. to his notorious ...

The crackdown has fueled human rights criticisms but has also resulted in a sharp drop in violence in El Salvador, once ...

The lockup currently houses thousands of members of gangs that terrorized the Central American country for decades.

Prisoners spend 23.5 hours a day locked in their cells, with a brief, daily 30-minute window for exercise or religious ...

Secretary of State Marco Rubio praised President Nayib Bukele’s “unprecedented, extraordinary” proposal to accept any ...

Rubio told reporters that more details would be forthcoming. CECOT, the Terrorism Confinement Center in El Salvador, is Latin ...

Tech experts, supported by the financial power of major tech companies, are racing to offer better digital financial ...

Bukele had offered to take in people deported from the US, regardless of their nationality, and house them in El Salvador's ...

Nayib Bukele offered to take in deportees from other nations and also American convicts — for an undetermined fee.

El Salvador opened Latin America's largest prison last year to accommodate the tens of thousands jailed under Nayib Bukele's massive crackdown on violent gangs. There is virtually no precedent in ...