Nayib Bukele offered to recover in the megacárcel of El Salvador to dangerous criminals sent from the United States

The president of El Salvador, Nayib Bukele offered to recruit in the megacárcel of his country to Dangerous criminals with American citizenship and “criminals” migrants sent from the United States. This was announced on Monday by the Secretary of State, Marco Rubio.

According to the US official, Bukele decided to “accept for deportation of any illegal foreigner in the United States who is a criminal of any nationality” and seemed to put as an example to those of the MS-13 gang (from El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala) and the Aragua Train of Venezuela.

In statements to the press after meeting with Bukele, Rubio added: “He has offered host the dangerous American criminals in their prisons arrested in our country, including those with American citizenship and legal residence. ”

Rubio welcomed the proposal with satisfaction and said he was “deeply” grateful to Bukele, whose war against gangs fired his popularity in El Salvador and other countries, even in the United States among supporters of President Donald Trump.

“No country has ever made a friendship like this“said the head of American diplomacy, who said he had spoken early with Trump about the subject.

From his return to the White House on January 20, Trump undertook the mass deportation of migrants, has tried to end the right to citizenship by birth and announced plans to recruit 30,000 immigrants at the American base of Guantanamo (Cuba).

For his part, Bukele said on the social network X that offered Washington “the opportunity to outsouriate” part of his prison system, so El Salvador is willing to receive “only convicted criminals” at the Center for Confinement of Terrorism (CECOT), destined for gangs.

The reception of prisoners It would be “in exchange for a rate”, He indicated the Salvadoran president, who enjoys great popularity in his country for his offensive against gangs, based on an exception regime that, since 2022, has left some 83,000 detainees, without court order, many of them innocent, so that It is criticized by human rights groups.

“The rate It would be relatively low for the United States, but significant for uss, which would make our entire prison system sustainable, “Bukele said

Emblem of that antipondilla war, The CECOT, considered the largest prison in Latin Americawas inaugurated by the president two years ago on the outskirts of Tecoluca, 75 km southeast of San Salvador.

The prison, surrounded by huge concrete walls, is designed for 40,000 detainees, but there are currently about 15,000 of the MS-13 and Barrio 18 gangs, which for decades terrorized the Salvadoran population.

Bukele’s security policy fell to historical minimums homicides in El Salvador, according to his critics at the expense of human rights.

Rubio made in El Salvador his second scale of his first trip as head of American diplomacy, after visiting Panama, where he discussed Trump’s warning that he will resume control of the Panama Canal because he is under “Chinese influence.”

On Tuesday he will visit Costa Rica and then Guatemala and the Dominican Republic at the close of his tour on Thursday.