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   US Secretary of State Marco Rubio will discuss the possibility of   
   deporting suspected Tren de Aragua gang members to El Salvador in an   
   upcoming meeting with Salvadorean president Nayib Bukele, according to   
   State Department Special Envoy for Latin America Mauricio Claver-Carone.   
      
   “We’re looking to do a new agreement that might include the members of the   
   Tren de Aragua, who will want to go back to Venezuela rather than having   
   to share the prison with the Salvadorean gangs like MS-13. It’s part of   
   what we want to discuss and how President Bukele can help us…” Claver-   
   Carone told reporters on Friday, praising Bukele’s security efforts in   
   recent years.   
      
   Since taking office in 2019, Bukele has launched a security crackdown in   
   El Salvador, detaining tens of thousands of people on suspicion of gang   
   membership.   
      
   Once suffering from the highest murder-rate of any country outside a war   
   zone, El Salvador has now fewer murders than the United States according   
   to government figures.   
      
   Members of the Bolivarian National Police stand guard in the Tocoron   
   prison in Tocoron, Aragua State, Venezuela, on September 23, 2023. Gang   
   leaders who ruled a prison in Venezuela that was stormed by more than   
   11,000 soldiers and police had fled the country a week before the   
   operation, a prisoners' rights group said Friday.The bosses of the Tren de   
   Aragua gang, which used Tocoron prison as a base for their international   
   crime operations, escaped after apparently being tipped off about the huge   
   operation, which had been planned for a year. On Wednesday, a vast force   
   of security personnel, backed by armored vehicles, took back control of   
   the notorious penitentiary that had been run by the inmates. (Photo by   
   YURI CORTEZ / AFP) (Photo by YURI CORTEZ/AFP via Getty Images)   
      
   But human rights activists say the Bukele administration’s approach is   
   overbroad – new legislation introduced as part of the crackdown allows   
   police to detain citizens without proof.   
      
   Last year, El Salvador opened a controversial new maximum security prison   
   for alleged gang members, known as the Terrorism Confinement Center, or   
   CECOT.   
      
   The news comes after President Donald Trump signed an executive order on   
   January 20 recommending that the State Department start the process of   
   designating the Venezuelan Tren de Aragua gang as a foreign terrorist   
   organization.   
      
   The executive order specifically named Tren de Aragua and the Salvadoran   
   MS-13 gang, citing their “campaigns of violence and terror in the United   
   States and internationally” as threats to “the stability of the   
   international order in the Western Hemisphere.”   
      
   Rubio begins his tour of Central America this weekend, and is expected to   
   arrive in San Salvador on Monday.   
      
   Trump has made stemming migration to the United States a top priority and   
   has enacted a slew of directives meant to crack down, including ordering   
   thousands more troops to the US southern border.   
      
   Tens of thousands of migrants from the three Northern Triangle countries   
   that Rubio plans to visit – Guatemala, El Salvador, and Honduras – attempt   
   to travel into the US each year. However, according to Customs and Border   
   Protection data, the number of border encounters with people from these   
   three countries dropped in 2024.   
      
   https://www.cnn.com/2025/01/31/americas/tren-de-aragua-bukele-rubio-intl-   
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