Salvador prison is notorious. Will they house Trump’s deportees?

A day after President Nayb, a pet agent from El Salvador Display To the prison convictions convicted of the United States, including American citizens, the issue of whether this plan can be accepted and implemented already.

Foreign Minister Marco Rubio, who stopped in El Salvador during Visiting Central America He said this week on Tuesday that the Trump administration will have to “study” the offer from Mr. Bokil to Prisoners of prison From the United States, for a fee. He said, “It is a very generous offer.”

Mr. Rubio himself said it is unclear whether the United States can send the convicts, including the Americans, to a foreign prison.

But the proposal drew attention to the prisons used by Mr. Bukele in recent years to charge the gangs that were spreading in El Salvador. They have become symbols of his strength and popularity, including with Mr. Trump – although human rights groups say crowded prisons keep pens for tens of thousands of people in the arrests improved innocent.

Analysts say this plan is unlikely to stand in court, especially as American citizens are interested.

But whether Mr. Bukele’s offer was actually behavior, analysts said he was working as a means of the two states governments to show a common vision of a difficult approach to the derivatives of the law.

“This declaration is the victory of public relations,” said Gustavo Flores Makas, a professor of government and public policy at Cornell University, a specialist in Latin America. It allows Mr. Bokley to show that he is all working for Mr. Trump, and enhances the Trump administration, “which is looking to bend unrealistic migration by raising risk if arrested.”

However, regardless of his chances of work, Mr. Bukele’s announcement immediately caused anxiety among human rights groups in the United States and beyond, which warned that the Crusade against Bukele’s rhetoric came at the expense of human rights.

“While gangs are no longer a threat, a system of terrorism and repression has appeared in the country,” said Anna Maria Mendes Dardin, Central American Director at the Washington Office of Latin America, a non -profit human rights group.

In a hearing before the Human Rights Committee between America in July 2024, Alexandra Hill Tinoko, Minister of Foreign Affairs, said that the country “meets all international standards” for prisoners and added that reports on human rights violations are “baseless accusations that are baseless and far away Our reality.

How did Boukley’s approach appear in the crime?

El Salvador was known as the murder capital in the hemisphere – with one of the highest killing rates anywhere in the world.

But in 2022, Mr. Bokil Declare To suppress gangs, the army was sent to the streets, and tens of thousands of people were arrested throughout the country, accusing them of relations between gangs or other crimes. More than 25,000 were imprisoned in the first weeks of Mr. Bukele’s campaign.

After nearly three years, the state of emergency has not yet been raised.

At that time, the nation underwent a noticeable transformation. The murders decreased sharplyAnd extortion payments that gangs requested from companies and residents as well.

As a reminder of a reminder of the Safari government, crime, photos, and videos policies that display dozens of prisoners are often distributed, sometimes without a shirt and only rooted in boxers, and their hands on their shaving heads.

Mr. Bukele got a skipping from the leaders in the region and beyond, and Most Salvadorians His support, not despite his strong but strong tactics.

In November, his approval classification was 91 percent, according to the CID Gallup poll, one of the world’s highest world leader – despite his support for him Recently diminished After his government reflected the prohibition of historical mining.

However, the approach to Mr. Boucley is the erosion of civil rights in the country, as human rights experts say: collective arbitrary arrests, severe overcrowding in prisons, reports on torture and At least 261 prison deaths Between 2022 and 2024 it was documented by several groups.

How to use Bukele’s prison system?

Mr. Bukele’s prisons is not a typical prisoner. Salvador’s prisoner gangs once used as operational centers to issue requests, blackmail companies abroad and use new members – something too I was seen inside prisons through Latin America.

It seems that this no longer happens “due to the severe measures taken to control the prisoners,” according to 2023. a report By Insight Crime, Organized Crime Research Group.

The star of the strategy of Mr. Bukele is what is called his huge imprisonment: the terrorism center, known as Cecot, a large detention center opened in 2023 outside the country’s capital, San Salvador. The facility is large enough to hold up to 40,000 prisoners, some of them from the age of 12.

The vast majority of 85,000 Silvadorians who were arrested under the state of emergency 2022 – which allow collective arrests without legal procedures – have mainly disappeared in the prison system, as many of them were detained for years without trial and without knowing their families even if they are alive.

Noah Bullock, Executive Director of the Salvadori Da`wah Group, who had an interview with hundreds of hundreds of the detainees arrested under the emergency.

Cristosal and Hummway Watch has I mentioned that prisoners are subjected to torture And depriving food. The fate of many guests They were identified in collective trials with judges whose identities remained secret.

Who can end in the prisons of an agent?

Ministry of Foreign Affairs He said In a statement that Mr. Bokali offered to take immigrants who are not documented from any country, not only El Salvador, who were convicted of crimes, including MS-13 members and Arajwa train Gangs.

In what the Foreign Ministry described as “an extraordinary gesture, which has not been extended before any country,” said Mr. Bokley who has offered “dangerous American criminals, including American citizens and legal population.” Analysts say that such a step is likely to be challenged, even if it is adopted by the Trump administration.

“I don’t think he will stand in the courts,” said Minisha Gilman, associate professor of political science at Emerson College, citing several local and international laws. Citizens.

However, the two governments can reach an agreement that allows the United States to deport large numbers of people to El Salvador, including non -Salvadorians, Ms. Gilman said. The United States is keen to find places to deport migrants whose countries are not accepted by regular US deportations, such as Cubans and Nicaragua.

Whether or outside prisons, immigrants will find themselves very vulnerable in El Salvador.

“They did not have the rights of citizens in that country,” said Ms. Gilman, noting that immigrants in El Salvador had reported violations at the hands of criminal groups as well as government actors, such as the police and the army.

Is there any precedent for Al Salvador?

In 2019, El Salvador An agreement signed With the first Trump administration to receive non -Salvadori immigrants, they were detained in the United States after US officials cut some aid to El Salvador, accusation A country not to do enough to reduce illegal immigration.

He also agreed to address asylum requests to prevent immigrants from going north to the United States.

The deal known as a “safe third country” is known, and the deal has not been implemented due to the Korona virus pandemic and eventually ended by the Biden Administration. Mr. Bokali pointed out on Monday, saying that his new proposal is “more important and more broader than the agreements that were made in 2019.”

What can an agent of this deal come out?

Manuel Melindez Sanchez, a political scientist Salvadori at Harvard University, said Mr. Boucley is eager to enhance his relationships with the Trump administration, and the latest show “clearly helps to strengthen this relationship between the world of Maga and El Salvador.”

But the relations between the government were not always close.

In 2022, Mr. Rubio was criticized During the Senate sessionHis accusation “very frankly” makes fun of the institutions for us.

During his presidential campaign, even Mr. Trump Dug In Mr. Bukele, saying that he was sending “all his criminals and drug dealers” to the United States, and he adds: “He is trying to persuade everyone of what he is doing in the country’s management – well, he does not do so do a great job.”

In addition to the management of the administration with the new administration, there is also a financial incentive in the Al Salvador show, with an expensive prison approach to preserving it.

There is an account that must be addressed.

Gabriel Labrador It contributed to the reports from San Salvador and Michael Crowley From San Jose, Costa Rica.