Overview
- El Salvador’s president said he would free every inmate to any country willing to take them, specifying this includes gang leaders and those described as political prisoners.
- Hillary Clinton highlighted PBS Frontline’s “Surviving CECOT,” which features three Venezuelan men who deny U.S. claims they are Tren de Aragua members.
- CECOT has housed migrants deported by the Trump administration under arrangements to send individuals labeled as criminals to El Salvador.
- A U.S. federal judge ordered the administration to provide due process to Venezuelan deportees sent to El Salvador and set a two‑week deadline for a compliance plan.
- Rights groups and released detainees allege solitary confinement, overcrowding, inadequate medical care and torture at CECOT, as Bukele’s 2022 emergency has produced over 90,000 detentions and hundreds of reported prison deaths.