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Illustrative: Members of the Lev Tahor Jewish community remain outside the Alida Espana de Arana special education school where where rescued children were being housed in Guatemala City on December 22, 2024. (Johan ORDÓÑEZ / AFP)
June 21, 2025, 3:32 pm
El Salvador extradites members of Jewish cult Lev Tahor accused of child sex abuse
Eliezer Rumpler extradited to Israel for allegedly disrobing, beating students, while Jonathan Cardona sent to Guatemala to stand trial for rape, child abuse and human trafficking
By AFP and Luke Tress
A member of the US Congressional Hispanic Caucus holds a picture of Kilmar Abrego Garcia during a news conference to discuss the Maryland man who was mistakenly deported to El Salvador, at Cannon House Office Building in Washington, April 9, 2025. (Alex Wong/Getty Images/AFP)
June 7, 2025, 11:08 am
US announces man wrongly deported to El Salvador will return to face federal charges
White House doubles down on claims Kilmar Abrego Garcia is a gang member after acknowledging resident of 14 years was sent away by mistake; defense calls charges ‘baseless’
By Eric Tucker, ALANNA DURKIN RICHER, LINDSAY WHITEHURST and Ben Finley
Venezuelan migrants deported from the United States arrive at Simon Bolivar International Airport in Maiquetia, Venezuela, March 30, 2025. (AP Photo/Cristian Hernandez)
April 19, 2025, 11:41 am
US Supreme Court blocks new deportations of Venezuelans under 18th century wartime law
Trump administration expected to try to persuade justices to lift temporary order; move comes after some were sent to El Salvador and housed in notorious prison
By Nicholas Riccardi and Mark Sherman
US President Donald Trump, right, shakes the hand of El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele during a meeting in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, April 14, 2025. (Pool via AP)
April 19, 2025, 5:05 am
El Salvador’s president, Trump’s new deportation partner, is a pro-Israel Palestinian
The self-described ‘world’s coolest dictator’ has ancestry from Palestine on his father’s side, but compares Hamas to the MS-13 gang and claims his wife ‘has Jewish blood’
By Andrew Lapin
In this photo provided by El Salvador's presidential press office, prison guards transfer deportees from the US, alleged to be Venezuelan gang members, to the Terrorism Confinement Center in Tecoluca, El Salvador, Sunday, March 16, 2025. (El Salvador presidential press office via AP)
April 8, 2025, 10:28 am
US Supreme Court lets Trump pursue deportations under 1798 ‘enemy alien’ law, with limits
Dissenting justices say decision rewards administration for defying court order and sending planeloads of alleged Venezuelan gang members to notorious El Salvador prison
By Agencies
Eliezer Rompler, of the Lev Tahor cult, arrives at the Jerusalem District Court for a court hearing on May 26, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
January 15, 2025, 12:26 am
Lev Tahor leader arrested in El Salvador amid major crackdown on cult
El Salvador’s AG says extradition request expected soon for Eliezer Rompler, who is indicted in Israel for child abuse
By ToI Staff and Agencies
Nayib Bukele, president of El Salvador, addresses the 78th session of the United Nations General Assembly, at UN headquarters, September 19, 2023. (Frank Franklin II/AP)
September 21, 2023, 3:04 pm
At UN, El Salvador’s leader scorns international criticism of his crackdown on gangs
President Bukele tells General Assembly suppression of violence lowered murder rate and was ‘right thing to do,’ despite accusations of human rights violations
By AP
A logo adorns a wall on a branch of the Israeli NSO Group company, near the southern Israeli town of Sapir, on August 24, 2021. (AP/Sebastian Scheiner)
January 13, 2022, 7:46 am
Dozens of El Salvador journalists, activists said hacked with Israeli-made spyware
Watchdog says NSO Group’s Pegasus software found on phones which were then surveilled using local infrastructure; government denies involvement despite circumstantial evidence
By CHRISTOPHER SHERMAN and Frank Bajak
Then-mayor of San Salvador Nayib Bukele at the Western Wall, February 2018 (courtesy American Jewish Congress)
February 7, 2019, 3:18 am
His dad was an imam, his wife has Jewish roots: Meet El Salvador’s new leader
Nayib Bukele’s grandfather was a Christian Palestinian from Jerusalem, which didn’t stop president-elect visiting in 2018 — and this week recalling his stop at the Western Wall
By Raphael Ahren
El Salvador presidential candidate Nayib Bukele of the Great National Alliance (GANA) speaks to the media after declaring victory in the presidential election in San Salvador on February 3, 2019. (Marvin Recinos/AFP)
February 4, 2019, 3:55 pm
El Salvador elects new president of Palestinian descent
Former San Salvador mayor Nayib Bukele takes 53.78% of vote, upending Central American country’s two-party system
By Denis ROUSSEAU
US President Donald Trump speaks alongside Kentucky Governor Matt Bevin (L) during a meeting on prison reform in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington, DC, January 11, 2018. (AFP PHOTO / SAUL LOEB)
January 13, 2018, 3:29 am
Trump partly denies, but also defends, his vulgar immigrant comments
President reportedly asks why US should accept more immigrants from Haiti and ‘shithole countries’ in Africa
By AP
El Salvador's Foreign Minister Hugo Martinez (Screen capture: YouTube)
January 2, 2018, 6:24 pm
El Salvador says it won’t follow US, Guatamela on Jerusalem embassy move
Salvadorean FM says decision to keep diplomatic facility in Tel Aviv made ‘out of respect for the peace process in the Middle East’
By JTA
November 24, 2016, 11:01 pm
7.2 quake shakes El Salvador, Nicaragua
No reports of damage or injuries; authorities issue tsunami alert; one hour earlier powerful hurricane hit coast
By AFP
Salvadoran diplomat Jose Arturo Castellanos, who saved tens of thousands of European Jews during the Holocaust by issuing them false El Salvadoran identity papers. (YouTube screen capture)
May 17, 2016, 5:13 am
Salvadoran savior of tens of thousands of Jews honored in Germany
At least 25,000 were rescued from Nazi hands by diplomat Jose Arturo Castellanos’s false citizenship papers
By JTA
Portrait of then-incoming El Salvador Ambassador to Israel Werner Matias Romero Guerra at the President's Residence in Jerusalem, November 9, 2015. (Isaac Harari/Flash90)
January 18, 2016, 12:40 am
El Salvador denies claims it is moving embassy to Ramallah
Rumor spreads as Foreign Ministry plans to ax its mission to Central American nation to free up funds
By ToI Staff
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