The Week in Stories Around the Globe

Inside El Salvador’s mega-prison, where US criminals could be held

SAN SALVADOR, EL SALVADOR – MARCH 16: (—-EDITORIAL USE ONLY – MANDATORY CREDIT – ‘EL SALVADOR PRESIDENCY / HANDOUT’ – NO MARKETING NO ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS – DISTRIBUTED AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTS—-) More than 250 suspected gang members arrive in El Salvador by plane, including 238 members of Venezuela’s Tren de Aragua gang and 23 members of the MS-13 gang, who were deported to El Salvador by the US in San Salvador, El Salvador on March 16, 2025. El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele confirmed they will be sent to the country’s infamous mega-prison at CECOP facility prison. San Salvador forces took heavy security measures. (Photo by El Salvador Presidency / Handout/Anadolu via Getty Images)

El Salvador’s president has offered to incarcerate criminals deported from the U.S. at The Terrorism Confinement Center, a mega-prison intentionally isolated from urban areas that can accommodate up to 40,000 inmates.

#ElSalvador #MegaPrison #TheTrumpadministration #ThisIsAmerica

South Sudan to accept man deported from US in bid to defuse visa row

NAIROBI, KENYA – 2022/09/13: The President of Southern Sudan Salva Kiir Mayardit (C), one of the guests during the inauguration of the new Kenyan president, addresses Kenyans at the Moi International Sports Center in Kasarani, Nairobi after the swearing in of William Ruto as the 5th President of the Republic of Kenya. (Photo by Boniface Muthoni/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

South Sudan’s Information Minister Michael Makuei Lueth told the AP news agency that the US was “attempting to find faults with the tense situation” in the country because no sovereign nation would accept foreign deportees.

#PresidentSalvaKiir #SouthSudan #Congo #Trump

The missing Black demonstrators in anti-Trump protests

Many of the Black Americans who flooded the streets in 2020 have stepped back from the renewed anti-Trump protests — torn between the urgency of the moment and the spiritual toll of relentless, often fruitless resistance.

#HandsOff2025 #Protests #BlackLivesMatter #Trump

Scientific consensus shows race is a human invention, not biological reality

The Smithsonian’s exhibit shows how racialized sculpture was “both a tool of oppression and domination and one of liberation and empowerment.” Science agrees with its claim that race is a human invention and not a biological reality.

#Racism #UnitedStates #Smithsonian #HistoryMatters

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