El Salvador offers prison sentences in an unprecedented proposal | The news of the prison
President Bukela’s proposal includes US Criminal Prison in El Salvador’s largest prison at a fee.
President El Salvador has proposed prison convictions from the United States in his country, an “unprecedented” offer praised by US Secretary of State Marco Rubio.
Nayib Bukele offered an offer while Rubija hosted Rubi on Monday in his residence of Lake Coatepeque, outside San Salvador, on Monday.
Bukele said that El Salvador was ready to close the convicted Americans to pay in a prison he opened a year ago, which is the biggest in Latin America.
“We offered the United States the opportunity to give part of their prison system,” Bukele wrote on X. “The fee would be relatively low for the US, but significant for us, which would be a sustainable for our entire prison system.”
We offered the United States the opportunity to outsourcing part of its prison system.
We are ready to take only convicted criminals (including convicted American citizens) to our mega prison (Cecot) in exchange for compensation.
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– Nayib Bukele (@Nayibbukele) 4 February 2025
After a three -hour meeting, Rubio told reporters that Bukele “agreed to the most interesting, extraordinary, extraordinary migration agreement anywhere in the world.”
“He offered to offer custody in custody in custody that the house in its prisons, including those with US citizenship and legal residence. No country has ever offered a friendship like this. We are deeply grateful.”
The American State Department describes the overcrowded prisons of El Salvador as “sharp and dangerous.” The website of the Department, in information about El Salvador, says: “In many facilities, provisions for rehabilitation, drinking water, ventilation, temperature control and lighting are inadequate or non -existent.”
Rubio added that Bukele was also ready to return the nationals of Salvadoran, as well as foreign nationals. He seemed to suggest that the focus in El Salvador would be on the prison of the Latin American gangs, such as El Salvador MS-13 and Venezuela Treen de Aragua.
“Any illegal immigrant and an illegal immigrant in the United States, which is a dangerous criminal-MS-13, a moment de Aragua, whatever it has been, has made its prisons,” Rubio said.
Since returning to the White House last month, Trump has accelerated the deportation of millions of people in the US who are without legal status.
Trump also presented plans for custody of 30,000 migrants at the US Bay at the Guantanamo Bay in Cuba – a prison for which previous Democratic presidents hoped to close.
Bukele, which in its country launched unwavering security, considers Trump’s administration a key ally in its migration efforts.
Ever since she took power in 2019, the Bukele Government has arrested more than 80,000 people, lowering the number of killings abruptly in what was once one of the world’s most insignificant countries.
While Bukele’s actions faced with criticism of human rights groupswho documented mass torture and abuse in overcrowded prisons in the country, he Return to power last year with the public grateful for the crime.
