El Salvador’s Cecot mega-prison was notorious long before the Trump administration’s recent decision to deport hundreds of alleged Venezuelan gang members there.

Family members of Venezuelan migrants who suspect their loved ones were sent to El Salvador as part of a rapid U.S. deportation operation over the weekend are struggling to get more information as a legal battle plays out.

Venezuela's government has condemned the deportation of hundreds of Venezuelan immigrants from the United States to an El Salvador mega-prison, comparing it to Nazi concentration camps.