#news: #El-Salvador blocks #USA senator Chris van Hollen from visiting Kilmar Armando #Abrego García after #Trump #deportations to #CECOT #human-rights
on 02025-04-17#news current state of #Trump deportation of Kilmar Armando #Abrego García, who is not from #Venezuela, to #El-Salvador #CECOT #deportations #human-rights
on 02025-04-17#news #video by Joe #Rogan condemning #Trump for sending innocent people, like Maryland father Kilmar Armando #Abrego García (whose 5-year-old US-citizen son is autistic) who fled El Salvador in 02011, and gay makeup artist Andre José Hernandez Romero from #Venezuela, to #El-Salvador in #deportations to #CECOT
on 02025-04-01#news #video saying #Trump administration is admitting one Maryland father, granted protected status in 02019, was mistakenly included in the #deportations to #El-Salvador due to an “administrative error”, but can’t be brought back. #USA #politics #human-rights
on 02025-04-01#news on #Trump #deportations to #CECOT in #El-Salvador: the names of the 238 detainees, disclosed on March 20. They’re still being held incommunicado. #human-rights #politics
on 02025-03-28this singer from #Venezuela has a YouTube channel; he’s one of the victims of #Trump #deportations to #CECOT in #El-Salvador because he has tattoos. #politics #human-rights
on 02025-03-28MSNBC relays Mother Jones’s #journalism on the tattoo-based #Trump #deportations #news to #CECOT in #El-Salvador for people from #Venezuela #politics #human-rights
on 02025-03-28#news on #Trump #deportations to #CECOT in #El-Salvador: immigrants from #Venezuela get snatched off the street because they have tattoos, for example, an #autism awareness tattoo. Apparently all of the families whose members have been disappeared report that they are being held incommunicado and that they have tattoos. #politics #human-rights
on 02025-03-28Jeremy Giles reports in #Foreign-Policy that #Bukele’s #homicide #statistics are fake because they stopped counting (at least) mass graves, police killings, and killings in prison as “homicide”: “Since the start of 2021, at least 171 unmarked graves have been discovered (68 in 2021, 43 in 2022, and 60 in 2023) and entirely left out of the nation’s homicide figures. (...) 1.6 percent of the Salvadoran population is now behind bars—more than twice the incarceration rate of Cuba and Rwanda and more than four times that of the United States.” Includes month-by-month homicide plots! #El-Salvador #politics #crime
on 02024-12-21using #Bitcoin in #El-Salvador in 02022 was very difficult, over a year after the Ley Bitcoin
on 02024-02-21#El-Salvador had a third of the people using #Chivo in September 02021 #Bitcoin #history
on 02024-02-21#Bitcoin to be adopted as legal tender in #El-Salvador, alongside the dollar: “[R]oughly 70% of people do not have bank accounts or credit cards. Remittances, or the money sent home by migrants, account for more than 20% of El Salvador's gross domestic product. Incumbent services can charge 10% or more in fees for those international transfers, which can sometimes take days to arrive and that sometimes require a physical pick-up.”
on 02021-06-05