In March 2025, Donald Trump began ordering deported individuals to be sent to the prison known as CECOT in El Salvador. The English translation of the maximum security prison is Terrorism Confinement ...

Mervin Jose Yamarte Fernandez believed he had arrived in Venezuela when he looked out the window of his deportation plane. After he read a sign that said "San Salvador," he heard screams. "We held ...

The mayor of Medellin on Friday touted the construction of a mega-prison in his city, Colombia's second-largest, becoming the latest Latin American leader to mimic the iron-fisted approach to gang ...