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 ...

The crash and hum of the ocean is everywhere in El Zonte, a small town on the lush Pacific coast of El Salvador about an hour ...

The Trump administration is considering a surprise proposal from the Central American nation to incarcerate American ...

Current laws “would categorically preclude most U.S. citizens and residents from serving their sentence in El Salvador,” a ...

The Trump administration and the president of El Salvador said they struck a deal allowing the U.S. to ship detained migrants and imprisoned criminals to a mega-prison there.

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

A U.S. official says the first U.S. military flight to deport migrants from the United States to Guantanamo Bay is set to depart Tuesday.

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said late Monday that El Salvador’s president has offered to accept deportees from the ...

At Bukele’s urging, El Salvador made bitcoin legal tender alongside the U.S. dollar in 2021. Bukele has positioned himself as an ally to U.S. President Donald Trump.

Berlín (El Salvador) (AFP) – Bitcoin enthusiasts seeking to turn a mountain town in El Salvador into a cryptocurrency haven ...

El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele gives a press conference in San Salvador, El Salvador, Tuesday, Jan. 14, 2025. (AP Photo/Salvador Melendez) ...