US EditionBukele offers sardonic response to Hillary Clinton over CECOT criticism
- Nayib Bukele, President of El Salvador, sarcastically responded to Hillary Clinton's allegations about the conditions at CECOT, stating, "If you are convinced that torture is taking place at CECOT, El Salvador is ready to cooperate fully."
- Clinton posted a video highlighting testimonies from deported men regarding their treatment in CECOT, branded by the Trump administration as gang members without evidence.
- Bukele proposed releasing El Salvador's entire prison population to any country willing to take them, emphasizing the need for all inmates to be included in the transfer.
- The exchange reflects a growing divide between progressive human rights advocacy and Bukele's hardline governance, which has significantly reduced violence in the region.
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Bukele Challenges Hillary Clinton on Prison Crackdown
El Salvador President Nayib Bukele publicly challenged Hillary Clinton after she criticized his aggressive crackdown on crime, telling the former U.S. secretary of state to take the country’s entire prison population if she disapproved of his policies. The exchange highlights a growing divide between progressive human rights rhetoric and hardline law-and-order governance that has sharply reduced violence in Central America. Nayib Bukele responde…
Hillary Clinton Wades Into ’60 Minutes’ Brouhaha, Gets Torched By Salvadoran President
Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton waded into the debate over a recently pulled “60 Minutes” story highlighting the conditions at El Salvador’s Centro de Confinamiento del Terrorismo (CECOT) prison — but Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele pushed back.The twice-failed presidential candidate shared a video after CBS News Editor-in-Chief Bari Weiss pulled a story on the prison, promising a look at what was really going on.“Curious to learn mo…
Bukele offers sardonic response to Hillary Clinton over CECOT criticism
Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele on Tuesday gave a lengthy sardonic reply to former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton after she criticized the conditions in El Salvador’s Terrorism Confinement Center, the notorious prison known as CECOT. The president was replying to Clinton’s post about CECOT on the social platform X, which included a “Frontline” episode on…
On Tuesday, El Salvador's right-wing president, Nayib Bukele, rejected the charges of torture in El Salvador's high-security mega-prison, where Venezuelan migrants expelled from the United States are incarcerated, threatening to release all prisoners including gang leaders. (Source: AFP). The conditions of detention in this Cecot (Center for Containment of Terrorism) have been at the centre of attention since the US channel CBS blocked the broad…
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