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The President of El Salvador, Nayib Bukele, has responded to allegations by former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton about the conditions at the Terrorism Confinement Center (CECOT), the country’s highest security prison that has received immigrants deported from the United States.
Bukele was responding to Clinton’s text on X that accompanied an 11-minute video of a PBS Frontline documentary titled: “Surviving CECOT.”
“Want to know more about CECOT?” he wrote. “Hear Juan, Andry, and Wilmer tell first-hand how the Trump administration labeled them gang members without evidence and deported them to a brutal prison in El Salvador.”
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President Donald Trump and the President of El Salvador Nayib Bukele. (EZEQUIEL BECERRA/AFP via Getty Images)
The short documentary tells the story of three Venezuelan men – Juan José Ramos Ramos, Andry Blanco Bonilla and Wilmer Vega Sandia – who were deported by the Trump administration to CECOT, the description of the short film states.
All three men have been branded by the US government as members of the Tren de Aragua gang, which they deny.
In response, Bukele said that his country is ready to cooperate if Clinton thinks that people have been tortured in the infamous prison that houses most of the gang members and immigrants deported from the US.
“We are willing to release the entire population of our prisons (including all gang leaders and all those described as “political prisoners” in any country willing to accept them,” he wrote. “The only condition is specific: it must be everyone.”
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Hillary Clinton criticized the conditions in El Salvador’s CECOT prison, prompting the President of the country, Nayib Bukele, to respond. (Getty Images)
“This would greatly help journalists and your favorite NGOs, who would then have thousands of ex-prisoners available for interviews, making it much easier to find other voices critical of the Salvadoran government (or willing to confirm any foregone conclusions),” added Bukele. “Certainly, if this evidence shows systematic truth, more and more sources should support the claim, and more governments should be willing to provide protection.”
Until then, he continued, El Salvador will continue to prioritize the human rights of the millions of Salvadorans who today live without being ruled by gangs,” Bukele said.
Bukele has strengthened his relationship with President Donald Trump by offering accommodation to certain migrants deported from the US in CECOT. The United States has deported Venezuelan migrants believed to be gang members from El Salvador after their country refused to take them back.
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A federal judge on Monday ordered the court The Trump administration to provide due process to a class of Venezuelan immigrants deported to El Salvador in March, and gave it two weeks to explain how it would do that — setting up another major dispute between the White House and federal courts.
