El Salvador’s president, Nayib Bukele says he’s imprisoned some 200 Venezuelans and 23 Salvador deportees from the US in “very good jails” at a fair price. Carlos Dada, co-founder and director of the Salvadoran digital news outlet El Faro tells The World’s Marco Werman that the men will join tens of thousands of others locked in a megaprison without legal representation.
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