El Salvador Security Minister Gustavo Villatoro said on Sunday that ten people deported by the United States come from Guantanamo, an American naval base located in Cuba.
The Salvadoran official indicated that these people, without specifying their nationalities or identities, were transferred to the Terrorism Confinement Center (CECOT), maximum security prison.
Last night, we received from Guantanamo ten criminals of the MS-13 (Mara Salvatrucha) and the Aragua train, who are already locked in the CECOT, Villatoro published in X.
He added that El Salvador continues to demonstrate his commitment in the fight against transnational terrorism.
The US Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, announced this Sunday in the social network X that last night (Saturday) another ten criminals of the foreign terrorist organizations MS-13 and Aragua Train arrived in El Salvador.
This transfer was informed on the eve of a meeting between Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele, and his American counterpart, Donald Trump.
The meeting will be held with the focus on Immigration Agreements between both governments and the possibility that the Central American country returns to Kilmar Abrego García, Salvadoran to which Washington acknowledged having deported by mistake in a controversial operation.
Since his return to the presidency, last January, Trump has already met with other heads of State in Latin America, although Bukele will be the first he will receive, not in his private residence of Mar-a-Lago (Florida), but in the White House, which underlines the good relationship between the two and the place occupied by the expublicist on the New York agenda.
The American presidential office said that, in the meeting they will celebrate during Bukele’s work visit to the US, both will talk about Salvadoran collaboration in immigration.
Since Trump’s arrival to power, the Pentagon has deployed thousands of soldiers on the southern border and the government has used military airplanes to transfer Venezuelan migrants to the Naval Base of Guantanamo, in Cuba.
This Saturday, the head of Chavismo, Jorge Rodríguez, said that all Venezuelan migrants who were “kidnapped” in Guantanamo are already in his country.
A group of 191 migrants deported by the United States returned to Venezuela on Friday. Of these, according to the Venezuelan Ministry of Interior, 35 “remained in the inhuman center of torture of the Guantanamo Naval Base, illegitimately administered” by Washington.
According to Democratic Senator Jack Reed to The New York Times On March 31, the Trump administration spent 40 million dollars in a single month to imprison some 400 immigrants in Guantanamo.