The National Assembly of Venezuela, through its president Jorge Rodriguez, condemns in the strongest terms the kidnapping of Venezuelan migrants in El Salvador. teleSUR

'I will do everything for my son', said Nelson Mendoza, the father of Jean Claude, a 37-year-old Venezuelan. Mendoza claims his son tried to migrate to the US legally but was detained and deported to El Salvador.

Human rights organizations on Thursday denounced the visit by the US homeland security secretary, Kristi Noem, to the notorious prison in El Salvador that is holding hundreds of Venezuelans deported from the US earlier this month without a hearing, calling her actions “political theater” ...

Noem visited the so-called Cecot, or Terrorism Confinement Center, an infamous maximum-security prison. The prison, built in 2022 during a brutal government crackdown on organized crime, is where nearly 300 migrants, previously in US custody, were recently expelled and are currently detained ...

“The Department of Homeland Security secretary’s visit is an example of the fear that Trump’s government wants to instill in immigrants,” attorney Ivania Cruz said on Thursday. Cruz works with the Committee to Defend Human and Community Rights (Unidehc), a human rights organization in El Salvador. “This is precisely what Noem has done — use the Cecot as a cinematographic space,” she added.

Noem’s visit to the prison “was a typical gross and cruel display of political theater that we have come to expect from the Trump administration,” Vicki Gass said. Gass is the executive director of the Latin America Working Group (LAWG), a human rights organization based in Washington DC. “That the Trump administration is flouting judicial orders and denying due process to people within the US borders is outrageous and frightening” ...

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/27/kristi-noem-el-salvador-prison-visit-trump-admin

Every one of these men who were deported to that hell-hole prison in El Salvador should be returned immediately, have their say in court, and file lawsuit after lawsuit against Trump's Gestapo until it is bankrupted!

By Mary Beth Sheridan and Maria Sacchetti

Kristi L. Noem, the U.S. homeland security secretary, threatened Wednesday to send more immigrants from the United States to a notorious maximum-security prison in El Salvador that has become a black hole for Venezuelans spirited out of the United States with no judicial hearing.

The Trump administration is locked in a court battle over whether it acted improperly in expelling the Venezuelans, who are accused of belonging to the Tren de Aragua gang. A U.S. judge is investigating whether the government defied his order on March 15 to stop their transfer. The Trump administration maintains the ruling didn’t apply to the expulsion.

Despite the legal standoff, Noem said after a visit to El Salvador’s Terrorism Confinement Center, or CECOT, that the administration was prepared to send more migrants there ...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/03/26/el-salvador-noem-cecot-venezuelans/