DAILYCALLER (Derek VanBuskirk) - Don’t Believe The Narrative: The El Salvador Beyond The Headlines
‘Everything changed’
DAILYCALLER (Derek VanBuskirk) - My Exclusive Interviews With El Salvador’s Most Dangerous Criminals
‘We chose this life, and there’s no way out’
I saw the volcano before I saw the prison. Guards lined the tropical road beneath the active San Vicente, where we had already been stopped and frisked before our van was allowed to continue. Soon, we arrived at El Salvador’s Terrorism Confinement Center, or CECOT, the massive prison built in 2023 to house the country’s worst of the worst: thousands of convicted murderers from the gangs that had terrorized the nation for decades. (RELATED: From Bloodshed To Bukele: A Timeline Of El Salvador’s War, Gangs And Crackdown) Upon seeing the 57 acres of concrete walls that made up the prison’s exterior, my mind immediately turned to Edmund Burke’s notion of the sublime: the often-overlooked cousin of beauty that, rather than delighting…Open
DAILYCALLER (Daily Caller Staff) - EXCLUSIVE: Daily Caller Documentary Goes Inside The Mega-Prison That Crushed El Salvador’s Gangs
Our team went inside CECOT
The Daily Caller is set to release an exclusive documentary Friday, Inside CECOT, which tells the story of El Salvador’s most famous prison and its role in freeing the Latin American nation from decades of brutal gang violence. Inside CECOT features extensive interviews with the key players behind the prison, including some of the criminals incarcerated in the facility itself — including Marvin Vásquez, a founding member of MS-13’s Crazy Criminal clique. The documentary details how Salvadoran leaders, including President Nayib Bukele and Vice President Félix Ulloa, have used the prison to house the country’s worst-of-the-worst criminals, breaking the stranglehold of violent criminal gangs over the country and clearing the…Open
DAILYCALLER (Derek VanBuskirk) - From Bloodshed To Bukele: A Timeline Of El Salvador’s War, Gangs And Crackdown
From Bloodshed To Bukele: A Timeline Of El Salvador’s War, Gangs And Crackdown
Although it may now be leading the conversation in safety and law enforcement, El Salvador reached that point only after a decades-long crucible, often exchanging the tyranny of military dictators for the subjugation of street kingpins. While it is impossible to pinpoint what began the decades of bloodshed in El Salvador, there is little debate over what ended them: the decisive yet controversial crackdown by the country’s current president, Nayib Bukele. In fact, Bukele’s campaign proved so effective that — for the most part — the only criticism from his foreign opponents remains that he came down too hard on the gangs and failed to do enough to protect the rule of law for those accused. Despite this, Bukele maintains an…Open
DAILYCALLER (Derek VanBuskirk) - From Bloodshed To Bukele: A Timeline Of El Salvador’s War, Gangs And Crackdown
From Bloodshed To Bukele: A Timeline Of El Salvador’s War, Gangs And Crackdown
Although it may now be leading the conversation in safety and law enforcement, El Salvador reached that point only after a decades-long crucible, often exchanging the tyranny of military dictators for the subjugation of street kingpins. While it is impossible to pinpoint what began the decades of bloodshed in El Salvador, there is little debate over what ended them: the decisive yet controversial crackdown by the country’s current president, Nayib Bukele. In fact, Bukele’s campaign proved so effective that — for the most part — the only criticism from his foreign opponents remains that he came down too hard on the gangs and failed to do enough to protect the rule of law for those accused. Despite this, Bukele maintains an…Open
DAILYCALLER (Daily Caller Staff) - EXCLUSIVE: Daily Caller Documentary Goes Inside The Mega-Prison That Crushed El Salvador’s Gangs
Our team went inside CECOT
ABCNEWS - Full appeals court to hear arguments over contempt inquiry into CECOT deportations
An appeals court will arguments over a judge’s attempt to hold the Trump administration in contempt for the deportation of Venezuelans to an El Salvador prison last year.
JUSTTHENEWS (Misty Severi) - CBS '60 Minutes' correspondent says network declined to renew contract over CECOT segment clash
The "60 Minutes" story centered on illegal migrants who were deported from the U.S. to El Salvador’s notoriously harsh CECOT prison.
ABCNEWS - Appeals court halts contempt inquiry into removal of Venezuelans to El Salvador
An appeals court has halted a contempt inquiry into Kristi Noem and others for last year's deportation of more than 200 Venezuelans to El Salvador's CECOT mega-prison.
THENATIONALPULSE (Pulse Wires) - A Deportee Just Filed a $1.3 Million Lawsuit Against the United States.
Venezuelan national Neiyerver Adrián Leon Rengel, 28, has filed a lawsuit in the United States seeking $1.3 million in damages for the mistreatment he claims he suffered during four months of detention in El Salvador’s CECOT mega-prison. The post A Deportee Just Filed a $1.3 Million Lawsuit Against the United States. appeared first on The National Pulse .
PULSE POINTS WHAT HAPPENED: A Venezuelan man deported to El Salvador and detained in the country’s CECOT mega-prison has filed a lawsuit in the U.S., seeking $1.3 million in damages for alleged false imprisonment and emotional distress. WHO WAS INVOLVED: Neiyerver Adrián Leon Rengel, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS), and advocacy groups including LULAC and the Democracy Defenders Fund. WHEN & WHERE: Leon Rengel was detained in 2025 in El Salvador’s CECOT prison; lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia on Tuesday. KEY QUOTE: “There came a point when I thought about hanging myself with the sheet they gave us.” – Neiyerver Adrián Leon Rengel IMPACT: The lawsuit seeks to challenge the use of…Open