El Salvador

El Salvador President Nayib Bukele gives a thumbs up as he departs the White House following his meeting with US President Donald Trump in Washington, DC, US, April 14, 2025. Photo: REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque/File Photo
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El Salvador proposes swapping US-deported Venezuelans for Venezuelan 'political prisoners'

In a post on X, Bukele asked that Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro hand over 252 "of the political prisoners you are holding," under his proposed deal.

Salvadoran police officers escort an alleged gang member who was deported by the US to be imprisoned in the Terrorism Confinement Centre (CECOT) prison in El Salvador. Photo: REUTERS
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US deportations to El Salvador test legal limits

Democratic US Senator Chris Van Hollen meets Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a man wrongly deported to El Salvador by the administration of Republican President Donald Trump, at a location given as El Salvador, in this image released April 17, 2025. Senator Chris Van Hollen via X/Handout via REUTERS
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US senator meets wrongly deported man in El Salvador

US President Donald Trump meets with El Salvador President Nayib Bukele in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, DC, US, April 14, 2025. Photo: REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque
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El Salvador's Bukele says he will not return man the US mistakenly deported

US President Donald Trump speaks on the day of his remarks on tariffs in the Rose Garden at the White House in Washington, DC, US, April 2, 2025. Photo: REUTERS/Carlos Barria/File Photo
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Trump calls for deporting some citizens to El Salvador, testing US law

Prisoners stand looking out from their cell as Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem speaks while touring the Terrorist Confinement Center, in Tecoluca, El Salvador, March 26, 2025. Photo: Alex Brandon/Pool via REUTERS
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US appeals court upholds block on Trump deportation of some Venezuelans

Venezuelan migrants disembark the airplane as they arrive on a repatriation flight from Mexico at the Simon Bolivar International Airport, in Maiquetia, Venezuela March 20, 2025. Photo: REUTERS/Leonardo Fernandez Viloria
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Venezuela reaches agreement with US to resume repatriation flights of migrants

Salvadoran police officers escort alleged members of the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua recently deported by the U.S. government to be imprisoned in the Terrorism Confinement Center (CECOT) prison, as part of an agreement with the Salvadoran government, in Tecoluca, El Salvador, in this handout image obtained March 16, 2025. Photo: Secretaria de Prensa de la Presidencia/Handout via REUTERS
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Judge demands answers of Trump administration in Venezuela deportation case

Franco Caraballo, 26, a Venezuelan migrant whose family believes he was sent from the United States to a prison in El Salvador, takes a selfie with his wife Johanny Sanchez, in this undated handout picture provided by his family. Photo: Franco Caraballo's Family/Handout via REUTERS
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Relatives of missing Venezuelan migrants desperate for answers after US deportations to El Salvador

Salvadoran police officers escort alleged members of the Tren de Aragua recently deported by the U.S. government to be imprisoned in the Terrorism Confinement Center (CECOT) prison, as part of an agreement with the Salvadoran government, in Tecoluca, El Salvador, in this handout image obtained March 16, 2025. Photo: Secretaria de Prensa de la Presidencia/Handout via REUTERS
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Trump administration deports more than 200 Venezuelans as judge orders them returned

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio meets with El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele at his residence at Lake Coatepeque, El Salvador, Monday, Feb. 3, 2025. Mark Schiefelbein/Pool via REUTERS
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El Salvador offers to house criminals deported from the US in its jails

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El Salvador football stadium stampede kills 12

A medical team arrives following a stampede prior to a soccer game between C.D. FAS Vs. Alianza F.C. at the Cuzcatlan stadium, in San Salvador, El Salvador May 20, 2023. REUTERS/ Jose Cabezas
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At least 12 dead in stampede at El Salvador soccer stadium