Venezuelans deported to the Salvador jail “In the trap of Nightmare”

The lack of material information about her son Oscar-one of the 238 Venezuelans, deported by the United States to the maximum security prison in the El Salvador-forced Gertrudis Pinetis to despair and left her on the verge of disruption.

At the moment when we start talking about Oscar, it is crying.

“My son went only to look for an American dream, and now he’s trapped in a nightmare,” she is.

Oscar lived in Dallas, Texas. Gertrudis explains that he put carpets in the apartment for life: “He helped me by sending money for the family and buying a medicine for a father whose diabetes is.”

Gertrudis is located 1800 km from Oscar, talking to me from the suffocating state of Zulia, in Western Venezuela.

The mother and son are divided by six borders and the impassable secott walls, the notorious “Terrorism Center” of Salvador-Turm with the maximum security to accommodate fierce members of the MS-13 gangs and 18th street.

The US government accuses Venezuelans detained in Cecot that they were members of the Tren de Aragua gang.

The Trump administration removed them from the soil in accordance with the law on foreign enemies in 1798. Without proper legal process, putting against the US Department of Justice in the conflict with a federal judge, which ordered the aircraft carrying migrants.

Gertrudis knew that her son had been seized by agents on immigration and customs execution (ICE), but realized he was in Texas and most likely on his way to Venezuela.

She only learned that he was taken to Salvadoran’s prison when her other son, who lives in Colombia, saw his name on the list shown on television.

Soon the images of 238 Venezuelans with a shaved head were broadcast when they were processed upon arrival at Cecot Maximum Security.

Gertrudis could make a son from the rose tattoo he had on the forearm.

“There’s so many innocent boys,” Gertrudis says.

“They did nothing wrong, but treat them as animals. Where are their human rights?” She calls.

The White House insists that those who are deported to Cecot be properly checked. Trump administration officials say they are all dangerous members of the gang – although they admitted in the court documents that many do not have criminal records.

While the second is declared as a solution to the problem of the gang of the region by the President of Salvador Naib Bokele and his supporters, it has long been called activists as a “black hole of human rights”.

Gertrudis believes it is also a black hole of information.

She didn’t have a word about her son’s well -being. The last time she saw him, he was shaved his head, thrown and dressed in a white prison T -shirt and shorts.

She does not know whether he is being kept in the same conditions as the prisoners of Salvador, who receive “not one ray of sunlight”, as President Bokele stated when he first presented a contradictory object with his cells and corridors without a window.

Venezuelans’ deportation criticism is growing not only in the US, but also in Salvador.

Expert on Immigration Immigration Salvadaran Napoleon Compos believes that this step is unconstitutional and that the Constitutional Chamber of Salvador “must act”.

“It should be stated that bringing these people to Salvador, without committing their crimes in this country, exceeds our constitutional restrictions.”

He says that “anecdotal evidence” make up that a considerable part of 238 did not have criminal records “,” not in Venezuela, or in the US, and even more so in Salvador. “

Mr. Composa believes that the idea of ​​a black hole of rights in El Salvador is applied outside Cecot – to the nation as a whole.

“Salvador today is a deep black hole of illegality, violations of basic freedoms and freedoms enshrined within our Constitution and the Inter-American Convention on Human Rights,” Mr. Compos insists. “There is no other way to put it.”

The work on the negotiations on the legal system of the country in the name of the prisoners of Venezuelans got into the Jaime Artega, which says he was hired by Venezueh Vice-President to ensure release.

“This case is very sad and unprecedented in our country,” he explains.

“We saw it only in times of slavery when people moved between the place and the place for money. It’s unprecedented.”

He remains confident that he can provide the release of the Venezuelans, given the lack of clarity depending on which they were given to Central America: “It seems between Salvador and the United States, documents that we cannot find, and we don’t.”

He teaches how, when Salvador was declared a “safe third country” for immigration purposes, he and others who challenge deportation can work in this clear legal definition. However, this is not the case.

He believes that at least men should be placed in some immigration center before a possible return to Venezuela, not a supermax designed for hardened members of the Salvadoran gang.

Meanwhile, President Nabi Bokele has greatly rejected all criticism of both the SECOCE and his broader repression on the gangs in Salvador.

Instead, it indicates the changes that its measures have led to Salvadoran society.

This week he stated that he announced a “state of exception” in the country, according to which certain constitutional norms and rights were rejected.

The measure, originally imposed on the moon, is now 35 times the extended loyalist congress, and there is no signs of the end.

The repression continues to enjoy the predominant support among the El Salvadorians, who have re -elected an extremely popular president last year.

In part, the reason can be found in the residential districts of San Salvador as 10 de Octubre.

Previously controlled by the MS-13 gang, it was the support of one of the most powerful criminals of Salvador-Elmer Canales River, he is “Kruk”, which is now in prison in the US.

A simple entry into a winding wand at the base of the juncined slope was impossible without the gang’s prior approval.

Even with their fathers, it would be a foolish step. Extraordinary, violence and intimidation were filled in this community, whose members were in constant fear for their children, their lives and livelihoods.

The contrast with the quiet peace of today’s neighborhood cannot be bright.

Many walls and even trees were painted with bright pink and green, covering the threatening graffiti MS-13, and three soldiers stand in the shade that occupies automatic weapons, a sign of a security safety strategy.

“We opened this store after (the state of exception came into force),” explains Roxana, who manages a small shop that sells carbonated beverages, food and cheap clothing from her front room.

“Things have changed a lot. We feel quieter, and we can stay open late.” The permanent requirements of the gang members for payments have also dried up, she says.

However, in the former gang neighborhoods there is a broad culture of silence.

Few residents were ready to give something more than a single -component answers about life under the gangs, and Roxana did not want to give her a last name or photograph.

“Many innocent people were also assembled,” she says of President Bokele’s repression. “We know about quite a lot of cases here. There are still people in prison that we know should not be there. It’s unfair.”

Thousands of prisoners were spent in Cecot for years, many without trial. Only 13 days have passed for the Oscar, but for his mother, Gertrudis, it was also ten years old.

She looks after her eight -year -old son in Venezuela when his father threatens in El Salvador.

She says she identifies herself with the mother of Salvadorians who are closed in Cecot, although they have any noticeable bandit ties, the situation she did not know before her own son was detained there without obvious ties with the Tren de Aragua gang for which he is accused of work.

“My son Venezuela, not Salvadoran. So, what the president did, it abducts our children,” Gertrudis says between the sublime.

“If they have committed any crime, they must answer them here in Venezuela.

“They have to send them home.”