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Tecoluca, El Salvador Police officers keep watch during the second arrival of inmates belonging to the MS-13 and 18 gangs to the new prison, a terrorist confinement centre
Photograph: El Salvador's Presidency Press Office AFP/Getty Images
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Residents in a low-income settlement (controlled by MS 13) pass by a police patrol, San Martín, San Salvador.
Photograph: Tariq Zaidi
El Salvador: a nation held hostage – a photo essay El Salvador is commonly considered the deadliest place in the world that is not a war zone, but it may as well be one. The defence ministry estimates that as many as 500,000 of the country’s 6.5 million people are involved in gangs The Guardian Fri 22 Nov 2019 07.00 GMT
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The burial for Jose Luis, 11, who was murdered by members of the La 18 gang.
Photograph: Tariq Zaidi
He would play with friends in the park on the border of a demarcation line between La 18 and rival gang MS 13.
He was threatened by gang members but continued playing with friends who were later kidnapped by La 18.
His two friends escaped, but Jose Luis was beaten, tortured, stabbed and beheaded.
His body was left in a ditch and found a few days later
El Salvador: a nation held hostage – a photo essay El Salvador is commonly considered the deadliest place in the world that is not a war zone, but it may as well be one. The defence ministry estimates that as many as 500,000 of the country’s 6.5 million people are involved in gangs by Tariq Zaidi The Guardian Fri 22 Nov 2019 07.00 GMT
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/nov/22/
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Venezuelans deported to CECOT and their families speak about their ordeal PropPublica 6 August 2025
Venezuelans deported to CECOT and their families speak about their ordeal video PropPublica 6 August 2025
The Trump administration’s move four months ago to send more than 230 Venezuelan migrants to a maximum-security prison in El Salvador known as CECOT took a staggering toll, not only on the men themselves but also on their families.
The men were released to Venezuela on July 18 as part of a prisoner swap without much explanation, and they and their relatives have begun sharing the details of their ordeal.
Juan José Ramos describes the physical torture he says he endured during his incarceration at CECOT as his mother, Lina Ramos, explains the emotional agony of not knowing whether she’d ever see her son again.
Andry Blanco Bonilla and his mother, Carmen Bonilla, still struggle to make sense of how they could have been caught up in something like this when Blanco didn’t have a criminal record and, in fact, had a deportation order to be sent back to his home country.
Wilmer Vega Sandia, who had migrated to the United States to find work that would help him pay for his mother’s cancer treatment, says he prayed every day of his incarceration that he'd make it home in time to hold her in his arms.
Without providing evidence, the U.S. government branded them all Tren de Aragua gang members, the “worst of the worst,” “sick animals,” and “monsters.”
Our reporting, a first-of-its-kind, case-by-case examination, shows how the government knew a majority of them had not been convicted of a crime in the U.S. — and only a few had serious convictions such as assault and gun possession.
We found a dozen or so had criminal records abroad and included those in our comprehensive database, too.
Nearly half, 118 of the more than 230 men, including Juan José Ramos Ramos, came to the U.S. legally and were deported in the middle of their immigration cases.
He entered the U.S. with a CBP One appointment, a program the Biden administration used to try to bring order to the soaring numbers of migrants attempting to enter the country.
At least 166 of the more than 230 men had tattoos, including Blanco, Ramos and Sandia.
Our investigation found that the government relied heavily on tattoos to tie the men to the Venezuelan gang, even though Tren de Aragua experts say tattoos are not reliable indicators of gang affiliation.
A handful of the men, including Sandia, had been granted voluntary departures by an immigration judge, which means they had agreed to pay their own way home to Venezuela.
Instead, they were deported to El Salvador. YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8INs141xeQ
He Thought He Would Be Deported to Venezuela. Instead, Trump Sent Him to CECOT. ProPublica 18 July 2025
He Thought He Would Be Deported to Venezuela. Instead, Trump Sent Him to CECOT. video ProPublica 18 July 2025
José Manuel Ramos Bastidas entered the U.S. with an appointment with border officials made via the CBP One app, which the Biden administration used to try to bring order to the soaring numbers of migrants attempting to enter the country, but he was immediately detained.
An immigration officer and a judge determined he did not qualify for protection in the country.
For almost a year, he waited in detention to be sent back home to Venezuela.
In February 2025, when the Trump administration began a mass deportation campaign and news of the first immigrants being sent to a U.S. military base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, started trickling in to detention centers, Ramos panicked and asked his wife, Roynerliz Rodríguez, to record a message, “Just in case something happens to me,” he said.
A month later, he called again.
More upbeat, he said U.S. authorities told him he would be sent back to Venezuela.
His family planned to bake him a cake and cook his favorite meal.
But Ramos never arrived.
Instead, he ended up being one of the more than 230 Venezuelans sent to the notorious prison in El Salvador known as CECOT on March 15.
In a first-of-its-kind, case-by-case investigation into where each of the men were in the U.S. immigration system, we found they were either in the middle of their cases, which normally should have protected them from deportation, or they had already been ordered deported and should have first been given the option to be sent back to a country they chose.
Tricia McLaughlin, an assistant secretary at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, defended sending the Venezuelans to CECOT.
“They may not have criminal records in the U.S., beyond breaking our laws to enter the country illegally,” she said in a statement, “but many of these illegal aliens are far from innocent.”
Ramos’ lawyers said in court records that U.S. authorities wrongly identified him as a gang member based on his tattoos and an “unsubstantiated” report from Panamanian officials.
Months later, his family questions whether he’s still alive.
They have not heard from him nor have they received official confirmation that he was sent to the Salvadoran prison beyond a list published by a news organization.
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2025
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