The president of El Salvador, Nayib Bukele, has offered the US president, Donald Trump “Foreign” your penitentiary system. To do this, Bukele has made available to the Trump government a maximum security prison in exchange for “a rate.”
In this way, El Salvador will host there to undocumented migrants arrested for serious crimes In the United States. It is an agreement similar to that already reached during Trump’s first mandate between 2017 and 2021.
This agreement has been reached After the visit on Monday of the United States Secretary of StateMarco Rubio, El Salvador as part of his first tour of the region.
An agreement reached after Marco Rubio’s visit to El Salvador
Bukele has described the operation as an “unprecedented” agreement, while Rubio said that “no country has ever made a friendship offer like this.” Thus, El Salvador is considered a third safe country.
The Salvadoran president received Rubio at the residence with a view to Lake Coatepeque, as a sign that The conversations were on the right track. Both went out to a balcony to observe the views of the lake and there the press asked him and the Salvadoran president anticipated this “unprecedented” agreement.
Some time later, Bukele announced in his X account that they had reached “an agreement that is not preceded in the history of relations” between their country and the United States.
In addition, he opened the door to house in this megacárcel both undocumented migrants arrested for serious crimes, as well as prisoners of American nationality.
The greatest prison in Latin America
El Salvador has the largest prison in Latin America, the Confinement Center for Terrorism (CECOT). In theory, according to information provided by Bukele himself, he has Capacity for 40,000 prisonersalthough it is not known exactly how many places are available.
Right now They comply with more than 20,000 gang members of the Mara Salvatrucha 13 and the 18th neighborhood, the two most powerful gangs. El Salvador is the country with the highest imprisonment in the world (1,659 people per 100,000 inhabitants), doubleing secondly (Cuba, 794 prisoner per 100,000 inhabitants).
At the moment, it has not been explained how this exchange will be, although according to Bukele there would be An economic rate in between “would be relatively low for the United Statesbut significant to us “, contributing to the sustainability of the Penitentiary System of El Salvador.
Yes ok, Deportation of American prisoners to El Salvador It is unlikely because it would be illegalwhile in the sending of immigrants without papers it is also not certain that international laws could be violated.
