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Weekly Report - 17 April 2025 (WR-25-15)
EL SALVADOR: Bukele deepens ties with Trump
“I mean, the question is preposterous, how can I smuggle a terrorist into the United States? I don’t have the power to return him to the United States.” El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele gave this unequivocal response to a question posed by the press about whether he planned to return Kilmar Ábrego García - a Salvadorean citizen who the US government admits was wrongly deported to the country - while sitting alongside his US peer Donald Trump in the Oval Office during an official visit to Washington this week. A nodding Trump did not appear displeased that Bukele, an ideological ally he has lauded for offering up his country’s Centro de Confinamiento del Terrorismo (Cecot) mega-prison to house US deportees, had made it difficult for him to comply with a directive from the US Supreme Court for his administration to “facilitate” Ábrego’s release.
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