An American Citizen Has Been Stuck in El Salvador’s Prison System Since the Biden Administration

An American Citizen Has Been Stuck in El Salvador’s Prison System Since the Biden Administration

When the cops arrived at a party in Cantón la Estancia, a tiny hamlet in the shadow of the San Miguel volcano, Walter Josué Huete Alvarado didn’t think he had any reason to worry. He had a minor infraction on his criminal record — a DUI when he was a teenager — but that shouldn’t matter in El Salvador. It happened in the United States, where he is a citizen. Yet Alvarado’s U.S. passport didn’t deter Salvadoran police from dragging him away, poin…