Venezuelans deported to El Salvador prison ‘trapped in nightmare’

Mexico correspondent, Cuba and Central America

The lack of tangible information about her son Oscar-one of 238 Venezuelans was deported by the United States to the Aqsa Security Prison in El Salvador-Pay Gertrodes Pinida to despair and leave her on the brink of collapse.
It explodes in crying at the moment we start talking about Oscar.
“My son only went to search for the American dream and now he is besieged in a nightmare,” she said.
Oscar lived in Dallas, Texas. GERTRudis explains that he put rugs in apartments for a livelihood: “He helped me send money to the family and buy medicines to his father, who suffers from diabetes.”
Gertrdis is 1,800 km from Oscar, and spoke to me from the heat of the suffocating Zulia state, in West Venezuela.
The mother and son are separated by six borders and the unbreakable walls in Cecot, the famous “Cabinet Center”, Salvador-is the utmost security prison that was built to accommodate violent members in the MS-13 and 18th Street gangs.
The US government accuses the Venezuelan holders of Sikot of being members of the Trine de Aragoa gang.
The Trump administration removed it from the American territory under the law of foreign enemies in 1798, without the due legal procedures, which puts the US Department of Justice in contradiction with a federal judge that carries the migrants to circumvent.
Gertrdis knew that her son was captured by immigration and customs enforcement agents (ICE), but they understood that he was in Texas and probably on his way to Venezuela.
I only discovered that he was transferred to Al -Salvaduri prison when he saw her other son, who lives in Colombia, his name on a list on television.
Soon after, pictures of 238 Venezuelan who shaved their heads were broadcast as they are treated when they reaches the maximum security.
Gertrudis can get her son out of a rose tattoo on his forearm.
“There are many innocent boys there,” he claims gertrudis.
“They did not do anything wrong but they treat them like animals. Where are their human rights?” It is pleading.
The White House insists on those who have been deported to CECOT are properly examined. Trump administration officials say they are all members of dangerous gangs – although they admitted in court documents that many of them have no criminal records for us.
While Cecot preaches a solution to the problem of the region’s gang by President El Salvador, Nayeb Bokil, and his supporters, activists have long described it as a “black hole for human rights.”
Gertrudis finds it also a black hole of information.
She had no word about her son’s welfare. At the last time I saw, he was a throat that he headed, lock him up and wearing a white shirt and pants.
She does not know whether it is kept in the same circumstances, as the Sillencadorean prisoners receiving “not a ray of sunlight”, as President Bokali said when the veil was first revealed for the controversial facility with its cells without windows and corridors.

Criticism for the deportation of the Venezuelan to Supermax Prison not only growing in the United States and in their homeland but also in El Salvador.
The Immigration expert in Salvadori Napoleon Campus believes that the move is unconstitutional and that the Silvador Upper Chamber in the Constitutional Chamber “must act.”
“It should be announced that bringing these people to El Salvador without committing any crime in this country that exceeds our constitutional borders.”
“Fragile Evidence” accumulates that a large part of 238 does not have criminal records “not in Venezuela nor in the United States and much less in El Salvador.”
Mr. Campos believes that the idea of a black hole of rights in El Salvador applies to the borders of Cecot – to the nation as a whole.
“El Salvador today is a deep black hole of violations, violations of the basic freedoms and freedoms stipulated under our constitution and under the conference between America for human rights,” Mr. Campus insists. “There is no other way to put it.”
The task of negotiating the country’s legal system in the name of the Venezuelan imprisoned to Khayi Ortega, who says he was appointed by the Vice President of the Venezuelan to secure their release.

“This issue is very sad, and no one has heard in our country,” explains.
“We only saw this in times of slavery, when people were moved between place and space for money. It is unprecedented.”
He is still confident that he is able to secure the launch of the Venezuelan due to the lack of clarity on the terms according to which it was brought to the Central American State: “It seems that there is a form of agreement between El Salvador and the United States, and documents that we cannot find, and we have no.”
He puts how Al Salvador is declared as a “third safe country” for immigration purposes, then he and others are united by deportation can work according to this clear legal definition. However, this is not the case.

He believes that at least, men should be placed in a type of migration center before eventually returning to Venezuela instead of the Supermax designed for members of the Silvadwan Steel Gang.
Meanwhile, President Nayb Bokil refused all the criticisms of CECOT and his broader suppression on the gangs in El Salvador.
Instead indicates the changes that entered its measures in the Society of El Salvadori.
Three years ago this week, he declared a “exclusion state” in the country, according to which some constitutional standards and rights were suspended.
This measure, which was originally imposed for a month, was extended 35 times by a loyal conference and there is no sign of an end on the horizon.
The repression remains in overwhelming support between the Salvadorians, who have re -elected the President’s common president by the landslide last year.
In part of it, the cause of San Salvador neighborhoods can be found like 10 de Octopry.
It was previously dominated by the MS-13 gang, was a stronghold of one of the most powerful El Salvador-Emmari Kanes Rivera, also known as “Crook”, who is now in prison in the United States.
It was simply entering a range of zigzag from the background at the sustainable hill base without the approval of the previous gang.
Even with our factors, it will be an universal step. Get blackmail, violence and intimidation was widespread in this society, whose members were constantly fear for their children, their lives and ways of living.
The contradiction with the calm calm in the ordinary neighborhood can not be more clear.
Several walls and even bright pink and green trees, which cover the walls threatening the MS-13, and three soldiers stand in the shadow carrying automatic weapons, are a sign of a work agent’s security strategy.
“We opened this store yet [the state of exception came into force]”Roxanta, who runs a small store selling soft drinks, food and cheap clothes from her front room.
“Things have changed a lot. We feel quieter, we can stay open late.” She says that the continuous demands by gang members on extortion payments have also dried up.
However, there is still a culture of silence spread in the neighborhoods of previous gangs.

A few residents were ready to give anything more than one unilateral answers to life under the gangs, and Roxanna did not want to give her the latter’s name or take her picture.
“Many innocents have also been rounded,” she says about the campaign of President Bokali. “We know a few cases from here. There are still people in prison who know it shouldn’t be there. It’s unfair.”
In Cecot, thousands of prisoners have been held for years, many without trial. For Oscar, it was only 13 days, but for his mother, Gertrudis, may have been a contract.
She takes care of his eight -year -old son in Venezuela, while his father screams in El Salvador.
She says that she is getting to know the mothers of the Salvadorians who were imprisoned in Cecot, although they have any clear gang links, a situation that she was not aware of before her son was arrested there without any previous clear links to the Trine de Aragua gang, which he accused of working for her.
“My son is Venezuelan, not Salvadori. Thus, what this president did is the kidnapping of our children,” says Gertrodes between sighs.
“If they executed any crimes, they must answer them here in Venezuela.
“They must send them home.”
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2025-03-28 00:30:00