US adds Mexican cartels to list of foreign terrorist organisations

found 2025 › Feb › 19 (Wed) @ 20:59 UTC

a story from The Guardian › International

Six cartels added to list as part of Trump’s plan to ‘wage war’ on drug trafficking groups to address fentanyl crisis in US

The US has added six Mexican cartels to its list of foreign terrorist organi…

Hidden messages in the tattoos that adorn gang member inmates of El Salvador's 'hellhole' mega jail

found 2025 › Feb › 16 (Sun) @ 10:30 UTC

a story from The Daily Mail › The Daily Mail

In bleak photos shared proudly by the presidency of El Salvador, rows of stripped and shaved prisoners, distinguished only by their tattoos, line the corridors of CECOT.

Inside the prison of the living dead: DAVID JONES is the first British journalist to visit El Salvador's godforsaken 40,000 capacity mega prison... and his account will shake you to the core

found 2025 › Feb › 08 (Sat) @ 07:25 UTC

a story from The Daily Mail › The Daily Mail

Standing a few feet away from the cage holding 100 perpetrators of savagery - one of 32 mass cells that line Module 8 in the Terrorism Confinement Centre - is a deeply unnerving experience.

Could US criminals be sent to El Salvador's mega-jail?

found 2025 › Feb › 05 (Wed) @ 06:33 UTC

a story from BBC › BBC News

El Salvador has offered to take in criminals deported from the US and house them in its mega-jail.

El Salvador offers to hold deportees and incarcerated US citizens in its jails

found 2025 › Feb › 04 (Tue) @ 19:54 UTC

a story from The Guardian › International

Human rights groups alarmed as Marco Rubio, US secretary of state, meets with Nayib Bukele during overseas trip

El Salvador’s president, Nayib Bukele, has offered to accept deportees from the United S…

Inside El Salvador's hellhole prison as Trump flirts with idea of sending America's most violent inmates there

found 2025 › Feb › 04 (Tue) @ 17:50 UTC

a story from The Daily Mail › The Daily Mail

The notorious prison complex, which houses some of the country's most dangerous gang members, could end up taking in deportees from the United States.

US strikes 'extraordinary' migrant deal with El Salvador to accept deportees from any country - including dangerous criminals

found 2025 › Feb › 04 (Tue) @ 07:19 UTC

a story from The Daily Mail › The Daily Mail

Secretary of State Marco Rubio says El Salvador's president has offered to accept deportees from the U.S. of any nationality as well as violent American criminals now imprisoned in the United States.

Rubio to visit Central America with migration and Panama canal on agenda

found 2025 › Jan › 31 (Fri) @ 21:47 UTC

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US secretary of state to visit region amid concern over Trump threat to ‘take back’ canal and tensions over China

Marco Rubio, the US secretary of state, will travel to Central America this week on a …

Canada ready with ‘forceful, immediate’ response if Trump imposes tariffs – US politics live

found 2025 › Jan › 31 (Fri) @ 15:53 UTC

a story from The Guardian › International

Donald Trump says he will impose trade tariffs on Canada and Mexico on Saturday, starting at 25% and they ‘may or may not’ rise over time

Secretary of state Marco Rubio will travel to Panama, El Salva…

Crammed into Hell: Thousands of MS-13 and 18 Street gang members squeeze onto bunks in El Salvador's mega CECOT prison that boasts inmates 'have lost all rights' as it marks second anniversary

found 2025 › Jan › 28 (Tue) @ 16:49 UTC

a story from The Daily Mail › The Daily Mail

CECOT (Centre for the Confinement of Terrorism) is a maximum security jail built a year ago by the Salvadoran government to lock behind bars 'high ranking' members of the most violent gangs.