• huppakee@lemm.ee
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    2 days ago

    You are right, but in this case the car they just received comes with upkeep costs and no particular benefits. If the US does the effort for getting them back, El Salvador has no real reason to keep them.

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      “Not interested in dealing with trump’s fuckery” as well as “they handed us the political prisoners who fled our country” and possibly not wanting the political fallout from making deals with a fascist country.

      That said it would be amazing if El Salvador took the opportunity to show the world by treating these prisoners better than the US did

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        “Miguel Sarre, a former member of the United Nations Subcommittee for the Prevention of Torture, described CECOT as a “concrete and steel pit” used to “dispose of people without formally applying the death penalty”, citing that the government does not intend to release the prison’s inmates.” –Article on CECOT by BBC Nobody that goes in comes out, there aren’t enough bunks or food for inmates, nobody is allowed to see or speak to the prisoners.