US EditionReport: Rubio Traded MS-13 Informants for El Salvador Prison Access
Marco Rubio agreed to hand over U.S.-protected informants to El Salvador in exchange for deporting hundreds of Venezuelan migrants to a notorious prison, risking informant safety.
- In March 2025, Marco Rubio promised to return nine MS-13 gang leaders, some of whom were U.S. informants, to Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele for access to El Salvador's CECOT prison.
- The deal raised concerns about compromising U.S. law enforcement operations, particularly regarding the reliance on informants.
- Critics argue that the arrangement could jeopardize future informant cooperation and weaken investigations into MS-13 activities.
- Douglas Farah stated that the agreement represents a deep betrayal of U.S. law enforcement, whose agents risked their lives to apprehend the gang members.
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The Trump administration promised to transfer key MS-13 leaders who were acting as informants on the gang in March as part of a deal for the U.S. to imprison hundreds of Venezuelan immigrants in El Salvador’s notorious Terrorism Confinement Center, or CECOT, this spring, new reporting finds. According to The Washington Post, Secretary of State Marco Rubio called Salvadoran president Nayib… Source
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Marco Rubio Agreed to Hand Over U.S.-Protected Informants to Bukele To Seal Trump's Deportation Deal: Report
Secretary of State Marco Rubio agreed to return several MS-13 gang leaders protected under U.S. informant programs to El Salvador in order to secure President Donald Trump's deportation deal with Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele
No One Will Trust the United States Again After Rubio Betrayed Informers Who Trusted Us
The US does have a very mixed bag when it comes to keeping its word. To take just one example, the Hungarians who revolted against their Soviet masters in 1956 were counting on US assurances of aid, but Eisenhower abandoned them. We routinely abandon...
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