Venezuelan Prosecutor General Tarek William Saab accused Salvador President Nayib Bukele of trafficking in human beings. He wants him to face international justice for taking money for imprisonment of persons deported from the United States. According to the AFP report, TASR reports this.
In March, more than 230 Venezuelans, together with approximately a dozen Salvadorčan, were transferred to the infamous Salvador prison of Cecot, on the basis of an agreement in which Washington pays Salvador’s government a year of $ 6 million per year.
Venezuela responded to deportations that caused a sharp legal debate in the United States, with anger and demanded “unconditional release” of deported persons.
In an interview with AFP Saab to Bukele, he stated that he was no better than the smuggler of people. “He commits the offense of trafficking in human beings,” the prosecutor said. “It’s a dirty business,” he added.
Demand justice
“In this matter, beechle will face international justice,” said Saab, who, along with Venezuelan President Nicolas Madur, has been subject to US sanctions for alleged suppression of democratic opposition in their country for years.
President Donald Trump’s administration portrayed deported men as dangerous members of bloodthirsty gangs, providing little evidence for this claim, writes AFP. Some were accused of violent crimes by US courts, but many not.
The relatives of these men strongly deny any connection with gangs and claim that their loved ones have arrested just because they are Venezuelans, migrants and tattoos.
At least two people were deported wrongly
Both Salvador and the American government widely promoted cleverly filmed shots of their arrival in Salvador, including bound and tattooed men with shaved heads, drained by masked guards.
US courts have decided that at least one Salvadorian and one Venezuelancan were wrongly deported and should be returned to the United States. However, Trump and his ally of Bukele have so far ignored these regulations.
The White House insists that, in addition to having ties to gangs, these men were illegal in the United States and are therefore criminals.
