The 'Judicial Black Hole' of El Salvador's Prisons Is a Warning for Americans

Bullock continues: “[Bukele] brags about the ways that they use cruel and inhumane treatment in CECOT and our organization has documented amply systematic practices of torture generally in the prison system. So the United States, in doing this, is generating a point of inflection for the international human rights system. The outcome of this is basically the creation of this transnational penal colony where a president, a head of state, can make a deal with President Bukele and disappear undesirables indefinitely.”

Right now “undesirables” are technically limited to Venezuelan immigrants who may or may not have tattoos. Does anyone actually think that definition isn’t going to be expanded? All non-white immigrants, trans people, gay people, those who speak out against these Nazis?

Eventually, they’ll just start building prisons in the US off of the El Salvadoran model. They’ve already adopted the same practices for imprisonment without cause and without any right to a defense once an accusation is made.