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Associated Press
This undated photo provided by Murray Osorio PLLC shows Kilmar Abrego Garcia. (Murray Osorio PLLC via AP)
More Democratic lawmakers are visiting El Salvador on Abrego Garcia’s behalf
Four House Democrats are visiting El Salvador in a bid to support Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a man whom the Trump administration deported to a notorious Salvadoran prison.
 
El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele waves as he departs following a meeting at the White House with President Donald Trump, Monday, April 14, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)
Salvadoran President Bukele proposes prisoner swap with Maduro for Venezuelan deportees
El Salvador President Nayib Bukele has proposed carrying out a prisoner swap with Venezuela, suggesting he would exchange Venezuelan deportees from the United States his government has kept imprisoned for who he called “political prisoners” in Venezuela.
 
In this photo provided by El Salvador's presidential press office, a prison guard transfers deportees from the U.S., alleged to be Venezuelan gang members, to the Terrorism Confinement Center in Tecoluca, El Salvador, Sunday, March 16, 2025. (El Salvador presidential press office via AP)
Trump administration says it deported 17 more ‘violent criminals’ to El Salvador
The Trump administration says it has deported 17 more “violent criminals” from the Tren de Aragua and MS-13 gangs to El Salvador, as it doubles down on a policy of removing people from the U.S. to third countries despite criticism over lack of transparency and human rights protections.
 
El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele and first lady Gabriela Roberta Rodríguez wave from a balcony after he was sworn in for a second term, in San Salvador, El Salvador, Saturday, June 1, 2024. (AP Photo/Salvador Melendez)
US dampens criticism of El Salvador’s president as migration overtakes democracy concerns
The Biden administration has sent a high-level delegation to El Salvador to attend President Nayib Bukele’s inauguration to a second term.
 
Inter Miami's Lionel Messi, center, and Benjamin Cremaschi, right, go for the ball during a friendly soccer match against El Salvador national team at Cuscatlan stadium in San Salvador, El Salvador, Friday, Jan. 19, 2024. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo)
Lionel Messi and Inter Miami begin their preseason with a 0-0 draw against El Salvador
Four days after being named FIFA’s best men’s player, Lionel Messi began the preseason with Inter Miami of Major League Soccer, which played to a scoreless draw with the El Salvador national team in an exhibition.
 
FILE - Supporters greet El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele after he presented himself as the presidential candidate for the New Ideas Party in San Salvador, El Salvador, Friday, Oct. 27, 2023. El Salvador's Nayib Bukele took his presidential reelection campaign beyond the tiny Central American country's borders Wednesday night, Jan. 3, 2024, to capitalize on his rising profile across Latin America. During a two-hour forum on the platform X, Bukele accused critics of his controversial policies of trying to keep El Salvador and other developing nations down. (AP Photo/Salvador Melendez, File)
El Salvador’s Nayib Bukele takes his presidential reelection campaign beyond the country’s borders
El Salvador’s Nayib Bukele has taken his presidential reelection campaign beyond the tiny Central American country’s borders to capitalize on his rising profile across Latin America.
 
US expresses concern over El Salvador vote to remove judges
The United States says it is gravely concerned over a vote by El Salvador’s new congress to remove magistrates of the constitutional chamber of the Supreme Court. U.S. Secretary of State Antony J.
 
El Salvador’s long-dominant parties in crisis after drubbing
Saúl Meléndez was a guerrilla fighter during El Salvador’s civil war. And for years he remained a loyal member of the leftist political party formed by ex-combatants after the war.
 
Human rights body calls on El Salvador to protect reporters
An investigative news outlet in El Salvador is celebrating a decision by the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights confirming that it has been the victim of harassment putting its journalists at risk sets an important precedent defending press freedoms in the region.
 
El Salvador awaits end to deadlock over lifting virus curfew
Three months into a mandatory lockdown, Salavdorans are waiting for a reaction from President Nayib Bukele after the country’s congress passed legislation that would let them leave their homes. Bukele until now has opposed such an opening.
 
El Salvador president, court clash over virus measures
President Nayib Bukele is again locked in battle with El Salvador’s Supreme Court after its constitutional chamber ruled his government’s obligatory stay-at-home decree unconstitutional.
 
Storm season adds to pandemic worries for Mexico, C. America
Authorities in Mexico and Central America are putting their plans for dealing with the hurricane season amid the coronavirus pandemic into action.
 
El Salvador tightening restrictions for “special quarantine”
The strictest measures to slow the spread of the novel coronavirus in Central America are about to get tougher in El Salvador. President Nayib Bukele said the country is in a critical moment, so Thursday begins a “special quarantine.”
 
El Salvador homicides drop; experts point to virus lock-down
El Salvador’s once-startling homicide numbers have fallen again, and some experts say the lock-down for the coronavirus pandemic may be playing a role.
 
AP Interview: El Salvador’s leading candidate targets graft
A young businessman and former mayor of El Salvador’s capital is the front-runner in Sunday’s presidential election.
 
Pope makes El Salvador’s Oscar Romero, Pope Paul VI saints
Pope Francis has praised two towering figures of the 20th-century Catholic Church as prophets who shunned wealth and looked out for the poor as he canonized the modernizing Pope Paul VI and martyred Salvadoran Archbishop Oscar Romero.
 
Homicides up 70 pct in El Salvador, among deadliest nations
Honduras has led the world in homicide rates in recent years. It hit 92 per 100,000 inhabitants in 2011, according to World Bank data, before declining somewhat since then. Security Ministry spokesman Leonel Sauceda said Monday that Honduras’ homicide rate dropped from 68 per 100,000 people in 2014
 
El Salvador’s ex-rebel poised to win presidency
Quijano, 67, campaigned with Cold War references to the country’s 12-year civil war, in which the United States backed the Salvadoran government against the FMLN to stop the spread of communism in Latin America. Quijano said Sanchez Ceren, one of the top rebel commanders, would take the Central Amer