The Deal: Trump, Bukele and the Gangs of El Salvador
What was behind Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele’s deal with President Donald Trump to imprison deportees from the U.S. at CECOT? FRONTLINE and El Faro investigate. Three months into President Donald Trump’s second term, President Nayib Bukele of El Salvador opened the doors of his country’s notorious prison, CECOT, for deportees the Trump administration had swept up and accused of being gang members. Despite revelations that most of the men had no criminal convictions in the U.S.
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