Trump paid El Salvador $5M to jail deportees - with conditions on abortion and DEI but not preventing torture

[Eugene]

Source: The Independent

Trump paid El Salvador $5M to jail deportees – with conditions on abortion and DEI but not preventing torture

Secret memos made public this week show Trump administration’s arrangement with Nayib Bukele to jail Venezuelans

Alex Woodward
in New York
Wednesday 10 September 2025 20:53 BST

A secret memo between the United States and El Salvador reveals the Trump administration’s $5 million deal for Nayib Bukele’s government to jail dozens of Venezuelan immigrants deported from the country earlier this year.

According to a term sheet made public in court filings this week, the Trump administration agreed to pay the Salvadoran government $4.67 million to detain deportees at the notorious Terrorism Confinement Center, or CECOT, a brutal prison that human rights groups have condemned as a “tropical gulag.”

Under terms of the deal, El Salvador was prohibited from using the money to support drug traffickers and “mass-migration caravans” to the U.S.-Mexico border — as well as abortion care and support for diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives.

But the deal does not explicitly prohibit immigrants from being tortured, experiencing abuse or being held indefinitely inside one of the western hemisphere’s most notorious jails, where more than 250 Venezuelan immigrants deported by the Trump administration spent more than four months before they were sent back to their home country.

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Read more: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-paid-el-salvador-cecot-nayib-bukele-b2824075.html

Alternate link: https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/trump-paid-el-salvador-5m-195344464.html

[underpants]

1. Just making sure those guys don't get abortion care.

🙄

[RussBLib]

2. who thinks El Salvador gives a shit about DEI initiatives?

Trump is carrying a lot of grudges. That's why he's so.....

What a stupid thing to put in there. Did the money require the prisoners to be fed?

[eppur_se_muova]

3. What counts as "diversity" in a Central American country ? Didn't *anyone* tell Trump that they started out that way ?

Around 86% of Salvadorans identify as mestizo, or mixed Amerindian and European descent, 12.7% identify as being of full European ancestry, 0.1% identify as Afro-descended while about 0.6% do not identify with any of the aforementioned categories.[2]
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Among the various immigrant groups in El Salvador, Palestinians stand out.[181] Though few in number, their descendants have attained great economic and political power in the country, as evidenced by the election of President Antonio Saca, whose opponent in the 2004 election, Schafik Handal, was also of Palestinian descent, and the flourishing commercial, industrial, and construction firms owned by this ethnic group. The current President, Nayib Bukele, is also of Palestinian descent.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Salvador#Demographics

O!M!G! OUR PRESIDENT IS SENDING MILLION$$$ TO PALESTINIANS !! CONGRESS MUST INVESTIGATE RIGHT NOW !!

[Solly Mack]

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