El Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele responded to allegations from former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton about conditions at the Terrorism Confinement Center (CECOT), the country’s maximum-security prison that houses migrants deported from the United States.
Bukele responded to a post on Clinton’s X that was accompanied by an 11-minute video from the PBS Frontline documentary titled: “Surviving CECOT.”
“Curious for more information about CECOT?” she wrote. “Hear Juan, Andry and Wilmer tell firsthand how the Trump administration branded them as gang members without evidence and deported them to the brutal El Salvadoran prison.”
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President Donald Trump and El Salvador President 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 to CECOT by the Trump administration, according to a description of the short film.
All three men were branded by the US government as Tren de Aragua gang members, which they deny.
In response, Bukele said his country was ready to cooperate if Clinton believes people have been tortured in the notorious prison where many of the country’s gang members and migrants have been deported from the US.
“We are prepared to release our entire prison population (including all gang leaders and anyone described as ‘political prisoners’) to any country that will receive them,” he wrote. “The only condition is clear: it must be everyone.”
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Hillary Clinton criticized conditions in El Salvador’s CECOT prison, prompting a response from the country’s president, Nayib Bukele. (Getty Images)
“This would also greatly help journalists and your favorite NGOs, who would then have thousands of former prisoners available for interviews, making it much easier to find additional voices critical of the Salvadoran government (or willing to confirm the conclusions already expected),” Bukele added. “If these testimonies reflect a systemic reality, a much larger pool of sources should certainly only strengthen this claim, and many governments would be happy to provide protection.”
Until then, he continued, El Salvador will continue to prioritize the human rights of the millions of Salvadorans who today are free from the gang regime,” Bukele said.
Bukele strengthened his relationship with President Donald Trump by offering to house certain migrants deported from the U.S. at CECOT. The US has deported Venezuelan migrants believed to be gang members to El Salvador after their home country refused to take them back.
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A federal judge ordered this on Monday Trump administration to provide due process to a class of Venezuelan migrants deported to El Salvador in March, and gave it two weeks to detail how they will do that — setting up another high-stakes clash between the White House and the federal courts.
