Host: A new report gives a chilling account of the treatment migrants experienced in CECOT. These detainees were subjected to torture, inhumane conditions and sexual violence. One detainee says 'guards made us kneel so they could shave our heads. The prison director told us you have arrived in hell'

The Trump Administration is enabling torture and sexual assault. Many of the people they’ve shipped out to CECOT are asylum seekers. Half had no criminal record whatsoever. These mass deportations to third-party countries must end.

Detainees deported by Trump to El Salvador tell of harrowing prison abuse and torture

A new report from inside CECOT details the torture, sexual abuse, and cut off from lawyers that inmates suffer. The Trump Administration pays El Salvador to hold migrants who've often been sent there without due process. Your tax dollars are being used to finance torture. https://bit.ly/4pcyu1n

Shocking report alleges Venezuelan migrants deported to El Salvador faced potential torture. Recent watchdog report alleges that Venezuelan migrants who were deported to El Salvador's CECOT mega prison were subjected to "constant beatings" & actions that may constitute torture…

The Venezuelans the United States government sent to El Salvador were tortured and subjected to other abuses, including sexual violence. Read the new report by @hrw and @Cristosal: www.hrw.org/news/2025/11...

NEW: The Venezuelan nationals the US government sent to El Salvador in March and April were tortured and subjected to other abuses, including sexual violence. In a new report, HRW and @cristosal.bsky.social provide a comprehensive account of the treatment of these people in El Salvador.

Los venezolanos que el gobierno de Estados Unidos envió a El Salvador en marzo y abril de 2025 fueron torturados y sometidos a otros abusos, incluidos casos de violencia sexual. Nuevo informe de @hrwespanol.bsky.social @cristosal.bsky.social: www.hrw.org/es/news/2025...

The Venezuelan nationals the United States government sent to El Salvador in March and April 2025 were tortured and subjected to other abuses, including sexual violence. NEW @hrw.org @cristosal.bsky.social report: www.hrw.org/news/2025/11...

@juanpappierhrw.bsky.social cita una opinión consultiva, de junio de 2021, de la Corte IDH en la edición de hoy de @elpais.com, p.4. 👇está el enlace al texto completo del dictamen (OC-28/21 de 7 de junio de 2021). #SleeplessNightsForAutocrats #Bukele jurisprudencia.corteidh.or.cr/es/vid/88397...

🇭🇹Haïti a besoin d'une aide internationale urgente alors que la violence s'intensifie. Des millions de personnes ont du mal à se procurer de la nourriture, un abri et des services essentiels. Voici l'histoire d'une vendeuse de rue de 37 ans qui a fui la violence à plsrs reprises:

Interviews with police officers and internal police documents reveal abusive practices that have led to arbitrary detention and abuse of power in El Salvador. Read our new @hrw.org report: www.hrw.org/news/2025/06...

🇭🇹Violence and human rights abuses are forcing thousands to flee their homes in #Haiti. A young woman who fled Port-au-Prince earlier this year shared her story with @hrw.org after seeking refuge in Cap-Haïtien. This is her testimony. 🧵

El Salvador, so far, this month: A leading human rights lawyer is arrested 7 journalists flee the country fearing arrest A peaceful protest is repressed President proposes a "foreign agents" law 16 bus company owners arrested, one dead

Since the 2024 election, the Maduro government has killed, tortured, detained and forcefully disappeared people seeking democratic change in Venezuela. New @hrw.org report: www.hrw.org/news/2025/04...

Desde las elecciones de 2024, el regimen de Maduro ha asesinado, torturado, detenido y desaparecido a personas que apostaron por la democracia en Venezuela. Nuevo informe de @hrwespanol.bsky.social: www.hrw.org/es/news/2025...

Fake margaritas Fake security narrative (he negotiated with gang leaders) Fake homicide rates (low, but not as low as he claims) Fake justice system (no due process) Fake justice for gang victims (nobody sentenced since state of emergency) Who takes Bukele's word seriously?

"As his partnership with Trump deepens, many in the [Salvadoran] diaspora are beginning to question whether Bukele still represents their interests or if he has traded them away for political clout": @marcelagarcia.bsky.social www.bostonglobe.com/2025/04/18/o...

In 2022, then-Senator Rubio wrote that failing to renew the TPS for Venezuelans would be a "very real death sentence”. So, why does he support terminating the TPS now? He knows well that conditions in Venezuela haven't improved the sightliest. www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

International law has a precise term for what the Trump administration and El Salvador have done to over 200 deported Venezuelans and their families: Enforced disappearance. Read @hrw.org's findings: www.hrw.org/news/2025/04...

"The Argentine Senate put a stop to one of the most serious attacks on judicial independence since the country’s return to democracy,” I told @apnews.com: www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...

Armed groups fighting over parts of the Catatumbo region near the Colombia-Venezuela border have committed grave abuses against civilians. New @hrw.org research: www.hrw.org/news/2025/03...

"The Trump administration has used its first few months to target the due process rights of immigrants. If left unchecked, its efforts will threaten the broader rights and liberties of us all": @davidleopold.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

*Nueva investigación* ELN y Frente 33 han cometido abusos contra civiles en el Catatumbo colombiano. Documentamos homicidios, trabajo forzado y reclutamiento de menores. Urge implementar una política de justicia y seguridad para proteger a la población. www.hrw.org/es/news/2025...

“Yo hablo de un Guantánamo centroamericano, porque el propósito de Guantánamo era dejar a las personas acusadas de terrorismo fuera de la protección del debido proceso de la ley estadounidense. Aquí la intención es muy similar” @juanpappierhrw.bsky.social elpais.com/us/migracion... @elpais.com

Trump and Bukele are attempting to create a Guantanamo on steroids—a prison where they can detain migrants and asylum seekers outside the protection of the law. My interview with @democracynow.org:

Trump and Bukele are attempting to create a Guantanamo on steroids—a prison where they can detain migrants and asylum seekers outside the protection of the law. My interview with @democracynow.org:

These Venezuelans, Cubans, Nicaraguans and Haitians came to the US legally, fleeing dictatorships and widespread violence. Exposing them to deportations is a cruel betrayal. www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

Asylum seekers are being sent to prisons in El Salvador that are allegedly committing human rights abuses. “This is an effort to create a Guantánamo on steroids, to put these people outside the protections of the law,” says @juanpappierhrw.bsky.social, a director with Human Rights Watch.

The recent discovery of an apparent mass killing site in Guadalajara, Jalisco state, should serve as a wakeup call that urgent reforms are needed to improve criminal investigations in Mexico. @hrw.org press release: www.hrw.org/news/2025/03...

"Bukele está ofreciendo convertir a su país en una especie de Guantánamo centroamericano": qué gana el presidente de El Salvador aceptando a los deportados de Trump www.bbc.com/mundo/articl...

Bukele le está ofreciendo a Trump una especie de Guatánamo Centroaméricano. ¿Qué gana Bukele, además de dinero? ¿Garantizar el silencio de los líderes de la MS13 sobre el pacto que tuvieron con su gobierno?

El Salvador is offering to become a Central American version of Guantánamo to help Trump avoid scrutiny over the treatment of migrants and asylum seekers, I told @washingtonpost.com's @schmidtsam.bsky.social: www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

🚨 Every December the UN General Assembly’s 5th Committee (budget) negotiations on the following year’s budget go down to the wire. This year’s no different. As usual, governments hostile to human rights launch a desperate bid to defund UN human rights work. A thread 🧵 1/x

Haiti is so broken that members of criminal groups rape women and girls without fearing any consequences. Read our new @hrw.org report: www.hrw.org/news/2024/11...

Daniel Noboa's government in Ecuador announces "investigations" to determine why members of the opposition took part in a demonstration. Very worrying sign. Hope Ecuador has learned the right lessons after Rafael Correa's authoritarian gov. www.comunicacion.gob.ec/investigacio...

Daniel Ortega has proposed a constitutional overhaul designed to provide legal cover to his dictatorship's systematic violations. I spoke [email protected] about the reform and repression by what is our hemisphere's version of North Korea: www.miamiherald.com/news/local/n...

This vote is happening tomorrow. If the Democratic Party is to serve as a functioning opposition, 52 of its House members need to change their votes from “yes” last week to “no” tomorrow. The 52 are listed in the thread below. If one of them represents you, please take a moment and call.

Here's a pretty random list of human rights developments in Latin America in the last 2 weeks. Can't help but wonder which are (and which aren't) partly in reaction to Trump's election in the US.