When U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio traveled to Central America in February on his first official trip abroad, Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele made him an unusual offer: El Salvador would receive and detain people deported from the United States, as well as...
I, Juanita Goebertus, declare the following under 28 U.S.C. § 1746, and state that under penalty of perjury the following is true and correct to the best of my knowledge and belief: I am the Director of the Americas Division of Human Rights Watch and have worked with...
After his visit to El Salvador in early February, Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced that President Nayib Bukele had agreed to accept deportees of any nationality, who would be placed in a maximum-security prison—a deal whose legality has raised doubts and...
Last Friday, Alirio Guillermo Belloso informed his relatives that he would be deported to Venezuela, but since then, they have heard nothing from him. They urgently need to confirm whether he is in a prison for terrorists in El Salvador because his trail has...
Not all the foreigners deported from the United States and imprisoned at the Centro de Confinamiento contra el Terrorismo (CECOT) (Terrorism Confinement Center) in El Salvador are members of the Venezuelan criminal organization Tren de Aragua, as President Nayib...
The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (AICHR) asked the Unit for the Defense of Human and Community Rights (Unidad por la Defensa de Derechos Humanos y Comunitarios, Unidehc) to provide more information on the condition of Fidel Zavala, who faces three...
