President Trump and President Nayb Boucley of El Salvador held a meeting in New York on September 25, 2019, on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly.
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Mexico City-Nip Bokil, President of El Salvador and himselfThe most wonderful dictator in the world“President Trump is scheduled to visit the White House on Monday. He is the first leader in Latin America to receive an official invitation to the Oval Office since Trump took office.
Bukele is one of the most important regional allies of Trump and no one has adopted his anti -immigration policies enthusiastically. With the support of Bukele, the Trump administration has been deported and imprisoned hundreds of members of the Venezuelan gang and claiming to El Salvador.
The opening trip is designed last month to El Salvador, the move to the famous Mega prison in the country and its carefully photographed it in a Spot video Bukele participated on social media.
More deportations has started since then – the last of which is Sunday Despite the continuous questions about the lack of transparency, the legal measures and denial of many of those who imprisoned any gang ties at all.
So, what do we know about the agent and why it was Easily embraced By the Trump administration and called to the White House?
The rise of the doctrine of the agent
Bukele was elected for the first time as president in 2019 after a campaign to fight corruption focused.
In 2022, he declared a state of emergency to treat gang crime and high killings in the sky. Under the law, which is still in effect, about 85,000 people were arrested, according to Human Rights Watch. 1,000 detainees were only convicted of crimes, as it is claimed that many innocent people were imprisoned.
In this photo presented by the Presidential Press Office of El Salvador, the prison guard is alleged from the United States, claiming to be members of the Venezuelan gangs, to the Ticoloca Terrorism Center, El Salvador, March 16, 2025.
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Noah Pollock, CEO of Cristosal, Non -governmental organizations in Al Salvadori human rights.
Although it is widely guilty due to violations of rights, many of them are in The Americas – Including President Trump Bokley admires successfully reduced the number of murders in a country. For years, he had one of the highest killings in the entire world. Murder crimes fell from more than 2000 in 2019 to only 114 last year.
Only last week, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Promotion of the travel safety classification of Salvados To the high level of 1, which is a gesture that has not reached a agent, over and over again Tweet News.
“Practicing natural precautions in El Salvador. Gang activity has decreased over the past three years,” and the consultant stated. Level 1 rating is only held by a small handful of Latin American countries, which is higher than the second -level travel classification for countries like UKand Sweden and France.
“Politicians around the region are trying to search for quick solutions to violence coming from organized crime, trying to use a speech of a prosecutor,” said Juanita Gubertus Estrada, Director of the Americas department at HRW.
All this helped to enhance his popularity at home. The president has the approval of up to 80 % and won his re -election in 2024 by a landslide. Although Bullock notes that many of them are afraid of publicly opposing him.
The President of El Salvador Nayeb Boucley speaks during the conservative political work conference, CPAC 2024, at the National Port, in Oxon Hill, Maryland, on Thursday, February 22, 2024.
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Maga alliance
Among the many regional fans in the agent are Maga Republicans. Donald Trump Junior attended the inauguration of an agent in the second period in June 2024. It was chanting the loyal Maja while speaking at the conservative political work conference in Washington in February last year.
The Trump administration is close diplomat Relationships with El Salvador. Each secretary State Marco Rubio And internal security Christie Sleep Secretary Paid visits to the country on their first foreign trips.
“The only country in Central America, which showed 100 % preparedness to do everything the United States require,” said the only country in Central America, which has shown 100 % preparedness to do everything the United States require. Washington office in Latin America.
This preparation has been badly extended to sending hundreds of technical and Salvadorian immigrants accused of the alleged gangs belonging to the huge prison in a agent, the terrorist center of imprisonment, or in part of the knot present in prison.
The deportation was widely condemned and continued to scrutinize significantly in the American courts. HRW is called “enforced disappearance” to the center “known in its abusive circumstances.”
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio will meet President Nayb Bokili at his residence in Lake Kwikbeek in El Salvador, on Monday, February 3, 2025.
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What is on the table in the White House?
In their meeting on Monday, the two leaders are expected to discuss more cooperation on immigration, definitions and potential detention in El Salvador for “dangerous” American criminals.
“These violent, heinous criminals who have broken the laws of our nation will repeatedly, and these are the frequent violent perpetrators in the American streets,” said Caroline Levitt, Trump’s press secretary.
But she also made it clear that the feasibility and legitimacy of politics has not yet been determined.
The Trump Salvador’s deportation strategy received a mixed response from the Supreme Court, which allowed on April 7 to deport further deportation under the 1798 law, but stipulated that the course of due legal procedures must be given.
The court also ordered the administration to “facilitate” the release of Kilmar Armando Abergu Garcia, the father of Maryland for three years. by mistake He was deported to El Salvador, although he was given protection by the immigration judge, who found that he could face gang violence there.
On Sunday, the Ministry of Justice said that the courts have “No authority” To force El Salvador to release Aberigo Garcia. This is settled with the president as the only agency of the federal government in the field of international relations. ”