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Pandemic’s effect on remittances to Latin America varied

By CHRISTOPHER SHERMAN - Associated Press

FILE - In this Feb. 9, 2020 file photo, El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele, accompanied by members of the armed forces, speaks to supporters outside Congress in San Salvador, El Salvador. Bukele has imposed some of the region's toughest measures against the new coronavirus and a growing number of human rights advocates at home and abroad complain the 38-year-old leader has used the emergency to seize near-dictatorial powers. (AP Photo/Salvador Melendez, File)

El Salvador hires, then fires, lobbyist booming under Trump

By JOSHUA GOODMAN - Associated Press

FILE - In this June 16, 2020 file photo, vehicles circulate on Army Boulevard, on the second day of the reopening of the economy, three-months after a lockdown aimed at preventing the spread of the new coronavirus in Soyapango, El Salvador. For months, the strictest measures confronting the COVID-19 pandemic in Latin America seemed to keep infections in check, in El Salvador, but a gradual reopening combined with a political stalemate has seen infections increase nearly fourfold by August. (AP Photo/Salvador Melendez, File)

El Salvador political stalemate a drag on pandemic response

By MARCOS ALEMAN - Associated Press

Judge allows El Salvador ex-defense minister house arrest

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A man seeks to salvage some of his belongings from what used to be his home, destroyed by the waters of the Acelhuate River, in the New Israel Community of San Salvador, El Salvador, Sunday, May 31, 2020. According to the Ministry of the Interior at least seven people died across the country after two days of heavy rains. (AP Photo/Salvador Melendez)

Storm season adds to pandemic worries for Mexico, C. America

By MARÍA VERZA and MARCOS ALEMAN - Associated Press

Vehicles stand damaged by the Acelhuate River after a flash flood at a neighborhood in San Salvador, El Salvador, Sunday, May 31, 2020. According to the Ministry of the Interior, at least seven people died across the country after two days of heavy rains. (AP Photo/Salvador Melendez)

Tropical storm kills 17 in El Salvador and Guatemala

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The swollen Los Esclavos River flows violently under a bridge during tropical storm Amanda in Cuilapa, eastern Guatemala, Sunday, May 31, 2020. The first tropical storm of the Eastern Pacific season drenched parts of Central America on Sunday and officials in El Salvador said at least seven people had died in the flooding. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo)

Season’s 1st tropical storm drenches part of Central America

By MARCOS ALEMAN - Associated Press

In this March 30, 2012, photo, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents take a suspect into custody as part of a nationwide immigration sweep in Chula Vista, Calif. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull) **FILE**

ICE confirms death of detainee who contracted COVID-19

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

In this photo released by El Salvador Presidency Press Office police wearing masks as precautions against the new coronavirus guard inmates, also wearing masks, during a security operation after President Nayib Bukele decreed maximum emergency in prisons housing gang members at the Izalco prison in San Salvador, El Salvador, Saturday, April 25, 2020. Bukele ordered the emergency the day after more than twenty people were killed throughout country that authorities said were ordered from prisons. (El Salvador President Press Office via AP)

El Salvador’s jail crackdown on gang members could backfire

By MARCOS ALEMÁN - Associated Press

El Salvador president to defy court on lockdown detentions

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FILE - This July 10, 2018 file photo shows a sign that reads &quot;Families Belong Together&quot; on a fence outside the Northwest Detention Center in Tacoma, Wash. Immigrant rights groups want U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to release detainees at its Washington state jail who are at high risk from the coronavirus. In a letter sent to ICE late Monday, March 9, 2020, the American Civil Liberties Union of Washington, the Northwest Immigrant Rights Project and Columbia Legal Services said ICE should release on parole any detainees who are older than 60, pregnant, or who have underlying conditions such as a weakened immune system or heart or lung disease. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren, File)

Detained immigrants plead for masks, protection from virus

By NOMAAN MERCHANT - Associated Press

In this Feb. 12, 2020 photo, transgender woman Leticia shows a photograph of Camila Díaz, another transgender woman she met while migrating to the U.S. where they both turned themselves in to U.S. immigration authorities and were eventually deported, during an interview at the office of rights group &quot;Arcoiris Trans,&quot; or Rainbow Trans, in San Salvador. Camila Díaz disappeared the night of Jan. 30, 2019 as she worked the streets of San Salvador and was found the next day, badly beaten but still alive. Emergency personnel took her to the hospital, where she died on Feb. 3. According to investigations, police had stopped Díaz in the street, and later threw her from a moving police vehicle on a highway. (AP Photo/Salvador Melendez)

Salvadorans who fled to US to escape violence returned to it

By MARCOS ALEMAN and CLAUDIA TORRENS - Associated Press

In this Feb. 7, 2020 photo, a Honduran delivery driver stands for a portrait in Guatemala City, where U.S authorities sent him to apply for Guatemalan asylum rather than allowing him to apply in the U.S. Fearing for his life, the 25-year-old had fled to the United States-Mexico border and requested asylum. After nine days in custody, he was put on a plane in McAllen, Texas, and sent to Guatemala City. (AP Photo/Oliver de Ros)

‘Deportation with a layover:’ US sends migrants to Guatemala

By SONIA PÉREZ D. and CHRISTOPHER SHERMAN - Associated Press

El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele, accompanied by members of the armed forces, speaks to his supporters outside Congress in San Salvador, El Salvador, Sunday, Feb. 9, 2020. Bukele has called on supporters to converge around the country's parliament after legislators refused to gather to vote on a $109 million loan to better equip the country's security forces. Top commanders of the country's police and military have expressed allegiance to the president during the standoff, while positioning security forces around the legislative building. (AP Photo/Salvador Melendez)

El Salvador’s Bukele says he’ll obey high court on military

By MARCOS ALEMÁN - Associated Press

Supporters of El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele gather outside Congress, Sunday, Feb. 9, 2020. Bukele is in the midst of a confrontation with congress as he attempts to force through legislation to approve a $109 million loan to implement the third phase of his national security plan. (AP Photo/Salvador Melendez)

El Salvador standoff deepens over loan for security forces

By MARCOS ALEMAN - Associated Press

In this July 10, 2019, photo, Juan Carlos Perla, center, talks to his wife, Ruth Aracely Monroy, center right, as they take a bus from their home in Tijuana, Mexico, for an asylum hearing in San Diego. The Perla family of El Salvador has slipped into a daily rhythm in Mexico while they wait for the U.S. to decide if they will win asylum. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)

Deportation can mean death in El Salvador: Study

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

In this July 10, 2019, photo, Juan Carlos Perla carries his youngest son, Joshua Mateo Perla, as the family leaves their home in Tijuana, Mexico, for an asylum hearing in San Diego. They were among the first sent back to Mexico under a Trump administration policy that dramatically reshaped the scene at the U.S.-Mexico border by returning migrants to Mexico to wait out their U.S. asylum process. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)

US finds ally in Mexico as asylum policy marks first year

By ELLIOT SPAGAT - Associated Press

El Salvador holds man on charge of promoting migrant caravan

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FILE - This June 6, 2019 file photo provided by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement shows one of the signs over the doorways within the dedicated unit for transgender migrants in the Cibola County Correctional Center in Milan, N.M. One month after winning her release from immigration detention, a transgender woman from El Salvador was arrested Monday, Jan. 13, 2020, and taken back to the Cibola County facility because the U.S. government is appealing. Lawyers say the woman is being unfairly detained and has a seizure disorder that threatens her life if left untreated. (Ron Rogers/U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement via AP, File)

Lawyers: ICE arrests trans migrant woman month after release

By NOMAAN MERCHANT - Associated Press

Suffolk County District Attorney Timothy Sini holds a machete while announcing an indictment of nearly 100 MS-13 gang members and associates during a news conference at Suffolk County Court in Riverhead, N.Y., Friday, Dec. 20, 2019. The two-year investigation by state and federal authorities thwarted more than a half-dozen murder plots, Sini said, and also provided authorities insights into the gang's structure and recruiting patterns. (James Carbone/Newsday via AP)

MS-13 arrests deal blow to gang leadership on Long Island

By JIM MUSTIAN and MICHAEL BALSAMO - Associated Press