El Salvador, country becomes repository of forced disappearances by the U.S.

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Four Salvadoran citizens who had been missing since March in the United States were found in the so‑called terrorist detention center, described as the concentration camp of El Salvador’s president Nayib Bukele. teleSUR

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00:00And four Salvadoran citizens who had been missing since March in the United States

00:04were found in the so-called terrorist detention center described as a concentration camp of El Salvador's President Ayipuquele.

00:11Human rights organizations have already classified this facility as one of the most dangerous areas in the sub-region,

00:17used by the United States to carry out forced disappearances of migrant citizens.

00:21Irving Quintanilla, William Martinez, José Santos, and Brandon Cigarrán

00:26were illegally expelled, according to U.S. judges by the State Department and the Department of Homeland Security,

00:31along with more than 200 Venezuelan citizens.

00:34They were accused of belonging to the now-defunct Trent Aragua, a criminal organization dismantled by Venezuelan authorities.

00:41Despite the efforts of their families, it was only after the intervention of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights

00:46that their whereabouts were clarified.

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