‘Hell on Earth’: Venezuelans Deported to El Salvador Mega-Prison Tell of Brutal Abuse – Knowhere News

He Was Asked About His Tattoos and a TikTok Video in Court. Five Days Later, He Was in a Salvadoran Prison.

Albert Jesús Rodríguez Parra was one of more than 230 Venezuelan immigrants the Trump administration sent to a maximum-security prison in El Salvador. After his release, he says he wants the world to know what happened to him.

‘Hell on Earth’: Venezuelans deported to El Salvador mega-prison tell of brutal abuse – Knowhere News

The 19-year-old Carlos Daniel Ter still recalls what a prison warden said to him upon his arrival in CECOT, El Salvador’s mega-prison. “He told us we were never going to leave this place,” Tern remembered. This year, it was March. Ter was recently sent from an immigration detention facility in Texas to the infamous Centro de Confinamiento del Terrorismo, or CECOT, a maximum-security facility designed to jail suspected Salvadoran gang members. Th…

Venezuelan musician Arturo Suárez-Trejo, released from Bukele’s mega-prison: ‘They told us the world had forgotten about us’

On Friday, July 18, Pastor Vladimir López — a short, forty-something Salvadoran inmate about whom not much else is known, other than that he is serving an 85-year sentence — stood before the 252 Venezuelans detained at the Terrorism Confinement Center (Cecot) in El Salvador and told them: “I couldn’t be here on the day of your arrival, but I can joyfully be here on the day of your departure.” They were returning home. Arturo Suárez-Trejo burst i…

Venezuela Releases U.S. Citizens In Exchange for Prisoners in El Salvador – The Presidential Prayer Team

Secretary Rubio expresses gratitude to El Salvador for facilitating the release of hundreds of prisoners from its high-security prison. Venezuela recently organized an exchange of 10 U.S. citizens…