Venezuela, El Salvador and CECOT
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We are glad 10 Americans and U.S. permanent residents held captive in Venezuela have been freed. It’s a welcome outcome after months of negotiations between the Trump administration and Nicolás Maduro’s regime. For the families of these unjustly imprisoned people, it is the end of a nightmare.
Venezuela's Attorney General announced an investigation into El Salvador's President Bukele and officials for alleged mistreatment of Venezuelans in CECOT prison, involving human rights violations. The detainees were part of a controversial deportation by the Trump administration,
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.”
Some ex-CECOT detainees from Venezuela could return to US, official says The Trump administration says it will facilitate the return of former detainees of an El Salvador prison to the U.S. from Venezuela, if required by a court.