US EditionVenezuela’s Returning Migrants Allege Abuses in El Salvador’s ‘Hell’ Prison Where US Sent Them
EL SALVADOR, JUL 25 – The migrants were held without evidence of gang ties and freed after a prisoner swap; the U.S. paid $6 million to El Salvador for their detention, human rights groups reported widespread abuses.
- Last Friday, 252 Venezuelan migrants were released from the notorious 'anti-terrorism' prison, CECOT, in El Salvador after four months of detention.
- Allegations of gang ties were made without evidence by U.S. officials, as the U.S. government provided no proof for gang membership accusations.
- At CECOT, Maikel Olivera described it as 'real hell,' adding AFP reported he was beaten for taking a shower.
- Tears of joy and relief flowed Tuesday as Maikel Olivera reunited with his mother, with families waving flags and embracing after months of separation.
- In Caracas, Maduro highlighted migrants’ accounts of abuse in a state broadcast, prompting political responses and investigations into Bukele’s actions.
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By CNN en Español A Venezuelan migrant who was imprisoned at Cecot, El Salvador's maximum-security prison, said in an interview with CNN that he was "brutally beaten" there three days before being deported to Venezuela and that he has a hand injury. Luis Alfredo Núñez Falcón is one of more than 200 Venezuelan citizens sent in March by the Trump administration as part of its deportation policy to the prison built by the government of his colleagu…
(Mexico City=Yonhap News) Correspondent Lee Jae-rim = A Venezuelan national who was deported from the U.S. to El Salvador on grounds of being connected to a drug trafficking cartel without any special evidence...
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Venezuelan men who were deported by the U.S. to a notorious prison in El Salvador without due process are speaking out about treatment they described as “hell” and like a “horror movie,” after arriving back home, The Guardian reports.
Venezuela’s returning migrants allege abuses in the notorious El Salvador prison the U.S. sent them to
Venezuelan migrants imprisoned for months in an El Salvador prison some of them described as “hell” — under a U.S. immigration crackdown — have reunited with their families.
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