El Salvador’s strongman President Nayib Bukele announced his country has offered the U.S. the opportunity to “outsource part ...

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

Unlike other Latin American leaders, El Salvador’s president is more than embracing US plans to move millions of undocumented ...

There is virtually no precedent in contemporary times for a democratic country to send its own citizens to foreign prisons, ...

Secretary of State Marco Rubio praised President Nayib Bukele’s “unprecedented, extraordinary” proposal to accept any ...

Pres Bukele will incarcerate convicted criminals from the U.S. in his country, a macabre offer Marco Rubio praised as 'unprecedented.' 'No country’s ever made an offer of friendship such as this.

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El Salvador opened Latin America's largest prison last year to accommodate the tens of thousands jailed under Nayib Bukele's massive crackdown on violent gangs. There is virtually no precedent in ...

Bukele ordered the mega-prison built as he began his campaign against El Salvador’s gangs in March 2022. It opened a year later in the town of Tecoluca, about 72 kilometers (45 miles ...

President Bukele’s proposal includes imprisoning US criminals in El Salvador’s largest prison for a fee. US Secretary of State Marco Rubio (L) meets El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele at his ...

El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele has offered for illegal immigrants – of any nationality – facing deportation in the U.S. to be booked in his country's prison system in exchange for a fee.