Treatment of Venezuelan migrants held at Salvadoran prison at U.S. request amounted to "arbitrary detention" and "torture," report argues

A report released by human rights groups found that the treatment of Venezuelan migrants imprisoned in El Salvador amounted to arbitrary detention and enforced disappearance.
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Venezuelans deported to Bukele’s mega-prison reveal torture and other abuses: ‘They said we would only leave in a black bag’

Human Rights Watch documented the mistreatment of 252 migrants that the Trump administration sent to El Salvador, and who were later released and returned to Caracas
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The Shifting Tides of Drug Trafficking on Venezuela’s Margarita Island

Margarita Island has long been a drug trafficking hub, but the US anti-drug strikes have transformed the island's criminal landscape.

Spanish police arrest 13 suspected members of Venezuela's Tren de Aragua gang

Spanish police arrested 13 suspected members of the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua across five cities, seized a stash of illegal drugs and dismantled two drug laboratories, authorities said Friday.
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Welch statement following shocking human rights report on El Salvador’s infamous prison, CECOT

Vermont Business Magazine Today, leading human rights organizations, from both the United States and El Salvador, released a new report on the shocking conditions in El Salvador’s infamous anti-terrorism prison, Centro de Confinamiento del Terrorismo (CECOT). U.S. Senator Peter Welch (D-Vermont) released the following reaction to the report:
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