Today, the first 238 members of the Venezuelan criminal organization, Tren de Aragua, arrived in our country. They were immediately transferred to CECOT, the Terrorism Confinement Center, for a period of one year (renewable).
The United States will pay a very low fee for them, but a high one for us.
Over time, these actions, combined with the production already being generated by more than 40,000 inmates engaged in various workshops and labor under the Zero Idleness program, will help make our prison system self-sustainable. As of today, it costs $200 million per year.
On this occasion, the U.S. has also sent us 23 MS-13 members wanted by Salvadoran justice, including two ringleaders. One of them is a member of the criminal organization’s highest structure.
This will help us finalize intelligence gathering and go after the last remnants of MS-13, including its former and new members, money, weapons, drugs, hideouts, collaborators, and sponsors.
As always, we continue advancing in the fight against organized crime. But this time, we are also helping our allies, making our prison system self-sustainable, and obtaining vital intelligence to make our country an even safer place. All in a single action.
May God bless El Salvador, and may God bless the United States.
The problem these Venezuelan gang member prisoners face is that they are OUTSIDERS.
At least the others in the pressure cooker El Salvadoran prisons are other Salvadorans. They have family, friends, neighborhoods and a culture in common, even if they are from rival gangs.
The Venezuelan gang members are total outsiders. They are a different culture, share none of the Salvandoran history... and they have zero ties to Salvadoran life. They are also short-timers, only there for a year or so before being removed to Venezuela. The local prison gangs are NOT going to put up with competition, and they won't put up with outsiders trying to control their prisons.
My bet is the Venezuelans will have a bad time, unless they are put into their own separate prisons away from the locals.
I watched a short documentary on CECOT (prison) 80 bunks per cell any fighting with inmates or guards gets you locked away in a cold dark, pitch-black solitary cell for a long enough period to drive a sane man to madness.
This is a zero-bullshit tolerance prison, the very definition of FAFO.
I don't think anyone will mess with another inmate twice in CECOT, there is a standing guard posted in front of each cell 24/7. They even have cell phone jammers so all communication in or out of the prison is blocked.
You're assuming they have gang activity as US prisons appear to. I'm sure gangs are there, but how active are they allowed to be?
These prisons are not run by the woke and appear to have zero tolerance for anything. They don't even allow inmates to stand up straight outside the cells.
Today, the first 238 members of the Venezuelan criminal organization, Tren de Aragua, arrived in our country. They were immediately transferred to CECOT, the Terrorism Confinement Center, for a period of one year (renewable).
The United States will pay a very low fee for them, but a high one for us.
Over time, these actions, combined with the production already being generated by more than 40,000 inmates engaged in various workshops and labor under the Zero Idleness program, will help make our prison system self-sustainable. As of today, it costs $200 million per year.
On this occasion, the U.S. has also sent us 23 MS-13 members wanted by Salvadoran justice, including two ringleaders. One of them is a member of the criminal organization’s highest structure.
This will help us finalize intelligence gathering and go after the last remnants of MS-13, including its former and new members, money, weapons, drugs, hideouts, collaborators, and sponsors.
As always, we continue advancing in the fight against organized crime. But this time, we are also helping our allies, making our prison system self-sustainable, and obtaining vital intelligence to make our country an even safer place. All in a single action.
May God bless El Salvador, and may God bless the United States.
The problem these Venezuelan gang member prisoners face is that they are OUTSIDERS.
At least the others in the pressure cooker El Salvadoran prisons are other Salvadorans. They have family, friends, neighborhoods and a culture in common, even if they are from rival gangs.
The Venezuelan gang members are total outsiders. They are a different culture, share none of the Salvandoran history... and they have zero ties to Salvadoran life. They are also short-timers, only there for a year or so before being removed to Venezuela. The local prison gangs are NOT going to put up with competition, and they won't put up with outsiders trying to control their prisons.
My bet is the Venezuelans will have a bad time, unless they are put into their own separate prisons away from the locals.
I watched a short documentary on CECOT (prison) 80 bunks per cell any fighting with inmates or guards gets you locked away in a cold dark, pitch-black solitary cell for a long enough period to drive a sane man to madness.
This is a zero-bullshit tolerance prison, the very definition of FAFO.
I don't think anyone will mess with another inmate twice in CECOT, there is a standing guard posted in front of each cell 24/7. They even have cell phone jammers so all communication in or out of the prison is blocked.
You're assuming they have gang activity as US prisons appear to. I'm sure gangs are there, but how active are they allowed to be?
These prisons are not run by the woke and appear to have zero tolerance for anything. They don't even allow inmates to stand up straight outside the cells.
So we’re paying a low fee when denominated in USD. But when it’s denominated in their own currency. It’s a veritable fortune.
Just enough money to cover a bag of beans and another of rice, which is all they will be getting to eat.
I hope we are also furnishing drone support for when the gangs come to break them out.