A dramatic new video shows how alleged MS-13 and the Aragua murderers and pedophiles are treated upon arrival in the Mega-Jail of El Salvador.
The President of the Midden -American country, Nayib Bukele, shared the clip on X to show the latest “joint military operation with allies from the United States.”
BUKELE said that the clip showed the transfer of '17 extremely dangerous criminals to Tren the Aragua and MS-13 '.
“All individuals are confirmed murderers and controversial perpetrators, including six rapists of children,” he wrote in a caption next to the video.
“This operation is another step in the fight against terrorism and organized crime.”
The minute -long video shows troops that accompany the prisoners from a huge plane on the runway at night, forcing them to run in handcuffs before they load into a car.
Civil servants in the prison facility then roughly push their head forward and shave their scalp before they grab them by the neck and lead them to their cells.
The prisoners can be seen wearing completely white with their arms chained behind their backs while they are rammed together in a small prison.
A dramatic new video shows how alleged MS-13 and the Aragua killers and pedophiles are treated upon arrival at El Salvador's Mega-Jail
The President of the Middle American country, Nayib Bukele, said that the clip showed the transfer of '17 extremely dangerous criminals connected to Tren the Aragua and MS-13 '
The mega prison is the crown jewel of the aggressive anti-crime strategy of El Salvador.
The gloomy facility, which prohibits all visitation, recreation and education, became the newest tool in the harsh action of US President Donald Trump against immigration this month, when hundreds of immigrants confronted were transferred.
Immigrants accused by the US of being a member of the Venezuelan tren de Aragua gang, started to arrive under an agreement between Trump and Bukele.
The US government has agreed to pay Bukele's administration $ 6 million for a year of services at the facility.
Bukele has made the grim, hard prisons of the Central -American country a trademark of his fight against crime.
He ordered the construction of the mega prison, called the terrorism restriction center or Cecot, when he started his campaign against the gangs of El Salvador in March 2022.
It was opened a year later in the city of Tecoluca, about 45 miles east of the capital.
The facility has eight vast pavilions and can contain a maximum of 40,000 prisoners. Each cell fits 65 to 70 prisoners.
The Minister of Justice of Bukele said that those who are held in Cecot would never return to their communities.
The minute -long video shows troops that accompany the prisoners from a huge plane on the runway at night, so that they have to run in handcuffs before they load a car
Officials at the prison facility then roughly push their head forwards and shave their scalp before they grab them by the neck and lead them to their cells
The prisoners can be seen who carry completely white with their arms chained behind their backs
The government does not contribute regularly, but the human rights organization Cristosal reported that El Salvador had 110,000 people behind bars in March 2024, including those sentenced to imprisonment and those who are still awaiting the trial.
That is more than double the 36,000 prisoners who reported the government in April 2021, one year before Bukele yielded his fight against crime.
Cristosal and other lawyers have accused authorities of human rights violations.
Cristosal reported last year that at least 261 people had died in the prisons of El Salvador during the performance of the gang. The group and others have cited cases of abuse, torture and lack of medical assistance.
In smooth -produced videos, the government has shown Cecot prisoners in boxing shorts that march and are almost on top of each other. Cells lack enough bunk beds for everyone.
The migrants were deported after Trump's statement from the Alien Enemies Act of 1798, which was used only three times in American history.
Officials at the prison facility then roughly push their head forwards and shave their scalp before they grab them by the neck and lead them to their cells
The law requires that a president declares that the US is at war, which gives him extraordinary powers to hold or remove foreigners who would otherwise have protections under immigration or penal laws.
Trump claimed that the Tren invaded the Aragua gang into the US when calling the authority of the war.
Tren The Aragua originated in a notorious lawless prison in Venezuela and accompanied an exodus of millions of Venezuelans, of whom the vast majority were looking for better living conditions after the economy of their country has been undone in recent decade.
The Trump government has not identified the deported migrants, provided that they are in fact any proof that they are in fact members of TREN the Aragua or that they have committed crimes in the US
