
Bukele offers Prison Service to US!
San Salvador, Feb 3 (EFE).-
Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele agreed Monday to receive undocumented migrants detained for serious crimes in the United States in a mega-prison and even opened the door to housing prisoners of American nationality.
In an unusual gesture, Bukele even offered to house dangerous American prisoners in his prisons, both those with citizenship and those with legal residency in the US.

Bukele “has agreed to the most unprecedented, extraordinary, extraordinary migratory agreement anywhere in the world,” US State Secretary Marco Rubio told reporters at the end of a three-hour meeting with the leader, who is becoming a staunch ally of the new US administration.
Rubio arrived Monday in El Salvador as part of his Central American tour, the first he has undertaken as state secretary and with which he seeks to stop the migratory flows heading north.

One of his main objectives was to address with Bukele the possibility of closing an agreement, similar to the one that existed in US President Donald Trump’s first term, to consider El Salvador as a Third Safe Country. This would allow the US to deport migrants of other nationalities, such as Venezuelans.
The Salvadoran president received Rubio in his spectacular residence overlooking Lake Coatepeque, in the west of the country, in a clear sign of friendship and that the talks were going well.
Rubio announced El Salvador would accept the deportation of undocumented migrants of any nationality who commit serious crimes, and gave as an example alleged members of the Mara Salvatrucha, or MS13, gang or the Venezuelan Tren de Aragua gang.

For his part, Bukele detailed on social media that the pact consists of accepting the entry “only of convicted criminals,” even with American nationality, into the famous maximum security prison in his country, called the Terrorism Confinement Center (Cecot), where gang members serve sentences.
According to the Salvadoran president, it is a kind of “subcontracting” of the prison, since a fee would be charged to the US that would make the “penitentiary system sustainable.”
Hours earlier, Bukele and Rubio went out onto a balcony to observe the views of the lake in front of the president’s residence and it was there that, asked by the press, the Salvadoran president anticipated that there would be an “unprecedented” agreement.
Bukele is, along with the Argentine Javier Milei, the Latin American president closest to Trump and was the first president of the region he called after being inaugurated.

The Trump administration sees the security strategy of the Bukele government as an example, which has drastically reduced insecurity in the country with heavy-handed police and military measures criticized by human rights organizations.
The previous administration of Joe Biden criticized Bukele at the time for seeking reelection despite the constitutional ban, although relations later eased.
The Salvadoran president told the press Monday that he has never hidden his “sympathy” with Trump.
The harmony and relaxed atmosphere demonstrated today was much greater than what emerged on Sunday from the meeting between Rubio and the Panamanian President Jose Raul Mulino.

That meeting was marked by Trump’s threats to regain control over the Panama Canal due to the alleged Chinese influence on that route, despite the fact that that Central American country is also a key partner for the US in the immigration issue.
Rubio, the first Hispanic state secretary US, will leave El Salvador on Tuesday to continue his tour to Costa Rica, Guatemala and the Dominican Republic.EFE
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