Matt Gaetz visited the El Salvador mega-prison last summer and pitched the idea of sending migrants there to Donald Trump’s deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller, according to a report.

Gaetz celebrated when earlier this month the Trump administration listed El Salvador as a Level 1 travel country, the same as much of Europe — a huge shift from just a year ago when it was still ...

Venezuelans held in a high-security prison in El Salvador shouted “freedom” and used a hand signal for help in a video published by the far-right One America News Network, a rare glimpse of ...

Maduro responded by demanding access to the prisoners for lawyers and family members. In March, El Salvador agreed to detain in Cecot up to 300 immigrants sent by the Trump administration.

But there’s at least one Democrat still on Bukele’s side. Gonzalez is, along with former Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.), the founding co-chair of the El Salvador Caucus, which they formed last year.

Both the physical and mental abuse doled out by the officers made me think sometimes that I would never leave that place,” ...

When former Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) was getting to know Nayib Bukele, the young Salvadoran president foreshadowed an offer that has since become central to the Trump presidency: “When you need ...