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El Salvador
[ el sal-vuh-dawr; Spanish el sahl-vah-thawr ]
noun
- a republic in NW Central America. 13,176 sq. mi. (34,125 sq. km). : San Salvador.
El Salvador
/ ɛl ˈsælvəˌdɔː /
noun
- a republic in Central America, on the Pacific: colonized by the Spanish from 1524; declared independence in 1841, becoming a republic in 1856. It consists of coastal lowlands rising to a central plateau. Coffee constitutes over a third of the total exports. Official language: Spanish. Religion: Roman Catholic majority. Currency: US dollar. Capital: San Salvador. Pop: 6 108 590 (2013 est). Area: 21 393 sq km (8236 sq miles)
El Salvador
- Republic on the Pacific coast of Central America , bordered to the west by Guatemala , to the north and east by Honduras , and to the south by the Pacific Ocean . San Salvador is its capital and largest city.
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President Donald Trump deported the Venezuelan nationals to a maximum security prison in El Salvador in March.
The president continues to defy a Supreme Court ruling to “facilitate” the return of a man wrongly deported to El Salvador’s gulag.
The threat of mass deportation combined with other factors – from military deployments at the border, to the high-profile deportations of migrants to El Salvador – may have acted as an effective deterrent.
Part of the way through his speech Trump screened a video of deportees being expelled from the US and sent to a mega-prison in El Salvador.
The administration has admitted it made a mistake when deporting him to a notorious prison in El Salvador, but appears unwilling to follow a Supreme Court order to "facilitate" his return to the US.
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