El Salvador and the United States have submitted dozens of people to “forced disappearances and arbitrary detention,” says Human Rights Watch.
Right groups are increasingly concerned that El Salvador is notorious Terrorism Confinement Center (CECOT) The prison is becoming a “black hole” for the United States to be released from expelled migrants or other unwanted persons without legal consequences.
On Wednesday, an American senator who traveled to the Central American country to try to recover a mistaken man and locked there was sent out without even being able to talk to him.
The man, Salvadoran Kilmar Abrego García, is one of the almost 300 migrants, mostly Venezuelans, that the Donald Trump administration has sent El Salvador since January without any judicial hearing.
Once there, they were locked in the infamously hard center for confinement of terrorism built to accommodate the rounded gangsters in the anti-chrimes with iron impulse of President Nayib Bukele.
The observers say that most migrants had not committed any crime, and many had enjoyed asylum status in the United States.
None have been heard since they were sent to El Salvador, where they are now in the legal limbo.
Human Rights ClockIn a report last week, said El Salvador and the United States have submitted dozens of people to “forced disappearances and arbitrary detention.” In the CECOT, incommunicado is carried out, they are not even allowed to contact lawyers.
“What they are trying to create here is a Guantanam AFPreferring to the American prison for horror suspects in a military base in Cuba. It is synonym for torture and other abuses.
‘Illegally kidnapped’
The deportation of Abrego García, in particular, has caused a protest and triggered a legal crisis.
Trump’s officials have affirmed that it is an illegal migrant, a member of a gang and is involved in human trafficking. He has never been convicted of any crime and had been granted a protected status that should have prohibited deportation to El Salvador.
A federal judge, backed by the Supreme Court, ordered the return of Abrego García, but the Trump administration argues that it is now only in saving custody.
Bukele, who has proudly adopted the nickname of the “best dictator in the world,” said he does not have the power to return to man.
With the hope of accumulating political pressure on the Trump administration, Maryland’s senator, Chris Van Hollen, visited El Salvador on Wednesday to declare the case of Abrego García, who said he was illegally kidnapped from the United States. Van Hollen met Vice President Felix Ulloa, who denied all access to man.
“His answer was that the Trump administration is paying El Salvador, the Government of El Salvador, to keep it on CECOT,” said the senator about the response he received from Ulloa.
Washington and San Salvador have ignored criticism of their collaboration, and Trump thanked Bukele on Monday for “helping us” with the mass deportation campaign of their administration.
El Salvador is receiving $ 6 million to accommodate migrants, and Bukele left Monday’s meeting with an agreement for his country to join the US Global Input Program. UU., Which allows the entry of accelerated visas.
“Bukele’s cooperation with President Trump’s agenda, including the disappearance of people abroad … and in prisons known to abuse, is unprecedented, rating of rights and extreme,” said the Central American Central American Rights Group in X.
350 deaths
AFP They interviewed several relatives of Venezuelans arrested in El Salvador, all of whom insisted that their loved ones were not criminals.
Alexis de Hernández, mother of Andry Hernández Romero, 31, said his son was rounded “just having tattoos”, a common complaint in this drama.
American officials have affirmed that brands indicate loyalty to the Train de Aragua gang of Venezuela, but experts point out that the group, unlike Salvadoran gangs, does not use tattoos for the identification of the clan.
According GlassAlmost half of Cecot’s detainees that he has been able to track had a state of asylum in the United States or requested asylum, “which should protect them from deportation.”
Trump has encouraged Bukele to build more prisons and said Tuesday that he would “love” to begin to also send American citizens who commit violent crimes to CECOT.
Washington Washington WOLA The Defense Group warned in a comment published on Monday “that thousands of citizens are languishing in the abusive penitentiary system of ET Salvador” and “at least 350 people have died in custody as a result of these conditions.”
“Corruption and lack of transparency (in El Salvador) should be of bipartisan concern” for the United States, he argued.
“The United States should not only monitor how your financial assistance is being used, but also examine whether you are inadvertently supporting a government that systematically retains information and evades responsibility.”
