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Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele on Wednesday signed into law constitutional reforms to permit life prison sentences for people as young as 12, a contentious reform that follows other heavy-handed ...
News El Salvador » San Salvador » Politics: El Salvador to apply life sentences to minors for serious crimes
By Gerardo Arbaiza SAN SALVADOR, April 15 (Reuters) - Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele has enacted legal reforms allowing life imprisonment for minors as young as 12 convicted of homicide, terrorism, ...
News El Salvador » San Salvador » Politics: When El Salvador’s Prisoners Go Free, She’s There to Pick Them Up
Sugey Amaya’s brother was detained in El Salvador’s mass arrest campaign four years ago. She has devoted her life to helping prisoners like him.
News El Salvador » San Salvador » Politics: In El Salvador's mass trials, 'the innocent pay for the guilty'
Wearing white uniforms, their heads shaved, rows of bewildered-looking men are beamed by video link from prisons across El Salvador into a courtroom conducting a mass trial of alleged gang ...
News El Salvador » San Salvador » Politics: El Salvador's Bukele visit to Costa Rica stirs political controversy
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The president of El Salvador, Nayib Bukele (R), walks alongside the vice president of Costa Rica, Mary Munive, at Juan Santamaria ...
News El Salvador » San Salvador » Politics: 'Hell on Earth': Venezuelans deported to El Salvador mega-prison tell of brutal abuse
Carlos Daniel Terán, 19, still remembers the words a prison warden told him when he entered El Salvador's mega-prison, CECOT. "He told us we were never going to leave this place," Terán recalled. It ...
News El Salvador » San Salvador » Politics: Families March in San Salvador to Block Mass Trials of El Salvador Detainees
Relatives of prisoners detained in El Salvador’s anti-gang campaign marched through the capital on Sunday to reject plans for mass trials. They say the proceedings will convict innocent people ...
News El Salvador » San Salvador » Politics: Bukele’s Alliance With El Salvador’s Gangs Is a Ticking Time Bomb
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Senior administration officials sought to defend President Trump’s proposal to cut foreign aid to three Central American countries he says are complicit in the flow of illegal migrants toward the U.S.