Venezuela, El Salvador and CECOT
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A Venezuelan migrant deported to El Salvador's CECOT prison was sent to Venezuela despite a court order, prompting a federal judge to consider contempt charges.
Lawyers for a 20-year-old Venezuelan asylum seeker who was wrongly deported earlier this year will ask a federal judge in coming days to consider opening criminal contempt proceedings against the Trump administration for “egregious violations” of her orders.
Julio González Jr., released last week from the Terrorism Confinement Center, said he was beaten, robbed of thousands of dollars and denied a lawyer.
TPM’s Josh Kovensky spoke with the wife of Jesús Alberto Ríos Andrade, one of the Venezuelan nationals removed to El Salvador under the Alien Enemies Act who was reportedly freed Friday. Angie, a Trump supporter, recounts what the last few months have been like and her reaction to the news that the detainees were being released.
A little after 9 p.m. local time Friday, Ydalys Chirinos-Polanco texted HuffPost a photo of her beaming next to her 25-year-old son, Ysqueibel Yonaiquer Peñaloza Chirinos. They posed behind a sign that read in Spanish: “Welcome to your country Venezuela. You don’t know how long we’ve waited for this moment. God bless you always.”
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Once Angie Gonzalez started to hear rumors that her husband might finally leave CECOT this week, she stopped being
STORY: Arturo Suarez tearfully reunited with his family in Venezuela on Tuesday after being released from a months-long detention in El Salvador's notorious CECOT prison."I thought of my daughter, thought of my wife,
Hunter Biden threatens to invade El Salvador, prompting President Bukele to mock the statement while highlighting ongoing prisoner swap cooperation with the U.S.
Former Venezuelan migrants, including singer Arturo Suarez and barber Darwin Hernandez, were welcomed home after months in El Salvador's CECOT prison, returning through a U.S.-Venezuela prisoner exchange.