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El Salvador's President Mauricio Funes stands in the National Assembly before speaking to commemorate the anniversary of his third year in office in San Salvador, El Salvador, June 1, 2012. El Salvador's Attorney General's Office on Friday, May 12, 2023 asked a court to impose a 16-year prison sentence on the former president for allegedly arranging a truce with gangs to lower the homicide rate in exchange for benefits for their jail leaders. (AP Photo/Luis Romero, File)

Ex-El Salvador President Mauricio Funes sentenced to 14 years for negotiating with gangs

By Marcos Alemán - Associated Press

An injured fan in carried to the field of Cuscatlan stadium in San Salvador, El Salvador, Saturday, May 20, 2023. At least nine people were killed and dozens more injured when stampeding fans pushed through one of the access gates at a quarterfinal Salvadoran league soccer match between Alianza and FAS. (AP Photo/Milton Flores)

Angry fans crash through gate at El Salvador soccer match in stampede that kills 12, injures dozens

By Marcos Aleman - Associated Press

Fabricio Chicas, a transgender man, right, poses for a photo with his partner Elizabeth Lopez, and their pets, at their home in San Salvador, El Salvador, Sunday, April 30, 2023. Even though the country’s Supreme Court in 2022 determined that the inability of a person to change their name because of gender identity constitutes discriminatory treatment, the 49-year-old has not been able to change his name from Patricia to Fabricio, nor his gender on his ID, a fate shared by many transgender people in El Salvador. (AP Photo/Salvador Melendez)

In El Salvador, transgender community struggles for rights and survival

By María Teresa Hernández - Associated Press

A couple walks next to one of the graves of gang members whose tombstone was destroyed on order of the government, during the Day of the Dead at the Nueva San Salvador Cemetery, in Santa Tecla, El Salvador, Wednesday, Nov. 2, 2022. Santa Tecla Mayor Henry Flores said the crews had destroyed nearly 80 tombstones in the municipal cemetery and erased gang-related graffiti. (AP Photo/Salvador Melendez)

El Salvador president says destroying gang member tombstones akin to Germany erasing Nazi symbols

By Matt Delaney - The Washington Times

A family walks by a wall covered by a symbol from the Mara Salvatrucha, of MS-13 gang in Ilopango, El Salvador, on Aug. 21, 2014. In communities across El Salvador, the Mara Salvatrucha and their arch-rivals, the 18th Street Gang, are de facto rulers. (AP Photo/Esteban Felix) **FILE**

MS-13’s smuggling operations in Mexico help gang members reach U.S.: DOJ

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

An Air Force helicopter flies over the Terrorism Confinement Center during a media tour in Tecoluca, El Salvador, late Thursday, Feb. 2, 2023. The "mega-prison" still under construction has a maximum capacity of 40,000 and is intended to imprison gang members, according to the government. (AP Photo/Salvador Melendez)

Thousands of suspected gangsters moved into El Salvador’s ‘mega-prison’

By Matt Delaney - The Washington Times

United States interim head coach Anthony Hudson stands on the sideline before an international friendly soccer match against Serbia in Los Angeles, Wednesday, Jan. 25, 2023. (AP Photo/Ashley Landis)

U.S. men’s team to play El Salvador in Florida on March 24

Associated Press

FILE - A Mexican smuggler guides a Haitian family across the Morelos Dam over the Colorado River from Los Algodones, Mexico, on Feb. 4, 2022, to Yuma, Ariz., on the other side. Chris Magnus has many challenges to overcome in his new role as commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection. In an interview with The Associated Press, Magnus acknowledged morale problems within the nation's largest law enforcement agency but offered no quick answers to the heavy migration flow to the U.S., which attracts more asylum seekers than any other country. (AP Photo/Elliot Spagat, File)

Hidden inflation on Biden’s watch: Prices in migrant smuggling economy soar to $2.6 billion

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Migrants gather their personal items as they wait to be processed by the Border Patrol after illegally crossing the Rio Grande River from Mexico into the United States at Eagle Pass, Texas, Friday, Aug. 26, 2022. Venezuelans have surpassed Guatemalans and Hondurans to become the second-largest nationality stopped at the U.S. border in August 2022 after Mexicans. (AP Photo/Eric Gay) **FILE**

$20 billion payday: Biden’s border surge sends smuggling prices soaring

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Canada's Cyle Larin scores against the United States during the first half of a World Cup soccer qualifier in Hamilton, Ontario, Sunday, Jan. 30, 2022. (Nathan Denette/The Canadian Press via AP)

U.S. stumbles to loss at first-place Canada in World Cup qualifying

By Ian Harrison - Associated Press

Migrants line up for a free meal at a makeshift camp of migrants at the border port of entry leading to the United States in in Tijuana, Mexico, on Wednesday, March 17, 2021. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull) **FILE**

Major study undercuts Biden explanation for surge in illegal immigration

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

New members of the New Ideas party are sworn in during the Legislative Assembly in San Salvador, El Salvador, Saturday, May 1, 2021. (AP Photo/Salvador Melendez)

US expresses concern over El Salvador vote to remove judges

By MARCOS ALEMAN - Associated Press

Suecy Callejas, Vice President of the Congress, center, smiles during the first session in San Salvador, El Salvador, Saturday, May 1, 2021. For the first time in three decades the traditional conservative and leftist parties have been sidelined by a resounding electoral defeat, clearing the way for President Nayib Bukele's party to help him advance his agenda. (AP Photo/Salvador Melendez)

El Salvador’s new assembly votes to oust high chamber judges

Associated Press

FILE - In this Feb. 17, 2021 file photo, Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele speaks before the start of vaccination of medical staff with the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine at the Atlacatl Medical Unit of the Salvadoran Social Security Institute in San Salvador, El Salvador. Bukele who became president by defeating both the leftist Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front, FMLN, and the right-wing Nationalist Republican Alliance, ARENA, party, was bounced from the FMLN in October 2017, accused of violating the party's principles. Now he has swept both parties again in congress by controlling 56 of the 84 seats. (AP Photo/Salvador Melendez, File)

AP Sources: El Salvador president snubs visiting Biden envoy

By JOSHUA GOODMAN - Associated Press

El Salvador's President-elect Nayib Bukele speaks to the press at Mexico's National Palace after meeting with the President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador in Mexico City, Tuesday, March 12, 2019. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte)

Nayib Bukele, El Salvador president, snubs visiting Biden envoy

By Joshua Goodman - Associated Press