The presidents of El Salvador, Nayib Bukele, and the United States, Donald Trump, They have acted outside the international legal frameworks and their countries With the imprisonment of migrants, alleged members of the transnational criminal gang of Aragua, in the Central American country, where they are in a “legal black hole”, according to analysts consulted on Monday.
On Sunday a first group of more than 200 alleged members of the band with Venezuelan origin, Those who were imprisoned without trial in El Salvador at the Center for Confinement of Terrorism (CECOT), a megacárcel for gang members.
“What is clear is that the leaders of the two countries They are acting outside national and international frames “ And “we have reached a turning point for the International Human Rights System,” he said in statements to Efe Noah Bullock, director of the Chrystosal Humanitarian Organization.
“We have two heads of state who have agreed Deporting and disappearing hundreds of people in the criminal centers of El Salvador Without the slightest guarantee. We do not know who they are and we do not know under what judicial jurisdiction will guarantee their rights. Those people have been sent to a judicial black hole, “Bullock added.
The director of Chrysal stressed that would correspond to the congresses of both countries “Ratify some kind of agreement of that nature”, and stressed that this imprisonment “they make it challenging a court order of a court in the United States.”
“You have two executives that They are monopolizing powers that do not correspond to them to cancel a population. That should be a matter of great concern for every country of democratic vocation, “he said.
Why is El Salvador at risk?
Constitutionalist lawyer Enrique Anaya said Monday in a television interview that El Salvador is being placed at risk of “being able to generate international responsibilities.”
“We do not know what the basis (legal) is to be able to send them (to migrants) and in El Salvador There is definitely no basis for this “, He argued, and analyzed that in legal terms this transfer from the United States to El Salvador is not part of “extraditions or deportations.”
Ingrid Escobar, lawyer and director of the humanitarian legal relief organization (SJH), said that It is worrying that both countries have ignored the court order, Mainly because “in El Salvador there is enormous institutional weakness.”
“In the prison system There are torture, cruel inhuman and degrading treatment, extrajudicial deaths. There is no respect, “he said.
For Escobar, this action represents a “violation” of “sovereignty” Salvadoran, since the approval process by the Legislative Assembly has not been given.
Bukele “Complacent”
The lawyer said that Salvadoran president, Nayib Bukele, “I would be tied to be complacent” with the United States government For the accusations that have existed from a pact between its administration and the gangs, which has led to some of its officials to have received sanctions.
He said that with the sending of members of the Mara Salvatrucha (MS13), including two leaders, “There is a clear objective, that the truce between Bukele and the gangs is not known.”
Regarding the economic benefit that Venezuelans’ imprisonment would generate to El Salvador, Escobar said that “Bukele It has the finance of the country broken “, So the government is in the constant search for resources to meet its “huge needs.”
Is there a real economic benefit?
According to Bullock, the Salvadoran government “It is under pressure” of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) “to implement austerity measures”, So “they are saying goodbye to school teachers, medical staff, they are grabbing pensions to finance government activities and have to keep 2 % of the population deprived of liberty indefinitely, which is a huge cost.”
“The benefit is not necessarily for the populationit is for a government that has failed to administer resources well and I think that betting on creating a prison industry, as an economic development model for the country, is not benefit for the most needy sectors, “he concluded.
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According to publications of some media, which cite filtered documents of the Salvadoran Foreign MinistryThe United States would be paying US $ 6 million the first year.
In an X post on Sunday, Bukele said that “United States will pay a very low rate for them, but a high rate for us “which “will contribute to the self -sustaining of our penitentiary system”, which “currently costs US $ 200 million a year.”