Venezuela, El Salvador and CECOT
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Francisco Javier Casique, one of 252 Venezuelans quietly deported to the mega prison, told Newsweek about their four-month detention in El Salvador.
After 125 days in silence, detained inside an El Salvador concrete fortress built to disappear people, Andry Hernández Romero is finally home in Venezuela, alleging he was tortured, sexually abused, and denied food while detained under a Trump administration deportation order that erased him from society.
U.S. District Judge Boasberg weighs new allegations in the Trump administration's immigration case after blocking the administration's use of the 1798 Alien Enemies Act to deport Venezuelans.
Judge Boasberg began the hearing by bringing up former Justice Department official Erez Reuveni's whistleblower complaint, saying that Reuveni's allegations "to the extent they prove accurate have only strengthened the case for contempt" against the administration.
If your friend was being beaten, would you leave him alone as they beat him?” Flores asked me. Seven of the Venezuelans arrived days after the rest, deported from Guantánamo, where a hunger strike had broken out.
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A little after 9 p.m. local time Friday, Ydalys Chirinos-Polanco texted HuffPost a photo of her beaming next to her 25-year-old son, Ysqueibel Yonaiquer Peñaloza Chirinos. They posed behind a sign that read in Spanish: “Welcome to your country Venezuela. You don’t know how long we’ve waited for this moment. God bless you always.”
The more than 200 Venezuelan migrants who were deported by the Trump administration to El Salvador's mega-prison in March have left El Salvador to be sent to Venezuela as part of a prisoner swap that included Americans being held in Venezuela, El Salvador President Nayib Bukele announced on X.
TPM’s Josh Kovensky spoke with the wife of Jesús Alberto Ríos Andrade, one of the Venezuelan nationals removed to El Salvador under the Alien Enemies Act who was reportedly freed Friday. Angie, a Trump supporter, recounts what the last few months have been like and her reaction to the news that the detainees were being released.
For the families of those detained, it’s an incredible relief. Gloria Browning Vaamondes-Barrios last spoke to her husband Miguel on March 14. The next day, the Trump administration loaded him onto a flight in South Texas which took off for El Salvador even as a judge prepared to hold a hearing over whether the operation was legal.
Migrants deported from the US to El Salvador and now returned to Venezuela tell EL PAÍS about four months of continuous punishment and total uncertainty about their fate