US EditionEl Salvador Defends Mega-Prison Key to Trump Deportations
President Bukele invites any country to take all 90,000 detainees from CECOT prison to verify abuse claims amid criticism and ongoing anti-gang crackdown.
- On Tuesday, Nayib Bukele defended CECOT and offered to release its entire population to any country willing to receive them, saying `The only condition is straightforward: it must be everyone`.
- After Clinton shared a PBS Frontline documentary, CBS News pulled a Sunday `60 Minutes` investigation and El Salvador announced centuries-long sentences for hundreds of gang members.
- Released deportees and human-rights groups alleged repeated abuse at CECOT, with reports of 454 prison deaths and over 90,000 detentions, including 8,000 releases.
- A high-profile deportation administrative error involving Kilmar Abrego Garcia, Maryland resident, and public endorsements of Bukele by Elon Musk intensified scrutiny of U.S.-El Salvador deportation arrangements.
- El Salvador cites gang violence spanning three decades as context for tough measures, positioning CECOT central to efforts while Venezuelan authorities initiated international inquiries into detainee abuses.
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El Salvador's right-wing president, Nayib Bukele, rejected on Tuesday 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.The conditions of detention in this Cecot (Terror Containment Centre) have been at the centre of attention since the US channel CBS blocked the broadcast this weekend of a rep…
El Salvador’s Bukele offers to send all prisoners to willing country after Hillary Clinton comments
El Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele said he'd release the country's entire prison population to any country willing to take them all, which he said would provide journalists and NGOs will subjects to interview who could “confirm whatever conclusions are already expected."
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El Salvador defends mega-prison key to Trump deportations
El Salvador's leader Nayib Bukele on Tuesday defended a huge prison that has become key to deportations from the United States under President Donald Trump, after drawing criticism for alleged rights abuses.
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