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11/13/2025, 5:09:44 PM
No.521302936
11/13/2025, 5:09:44 PM
No.521302936
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The new report adds to the mounting evidence of the brutal treatment Venezuelan migrants suffered in El Salvador. Drawing on testimony from 40 former detainees and 150 relatives, lawyers, and witnesses across Venezuela, Colombia, and the U.S., it exposes widespread abuse and mistreatment inside CECOT.
The men were released in July as part of a prisoner swap, and several later described enduring severe abuse during their detention.
“They’re going to kill me here,” Neri Alvarado told Mother Jones he remembered thinking.
“If I survive, I’ll be locked up my entire life.”
Alvarado’s case was emblematic of the cruelty of the CECOT detentions.
You may remember him, he was was targeted by the DJT administration bc of his tattoos—the largest of which was an autism awareness ribbon adorned with the name of his younger brother.
Men like Neri had to wait to be free to tell us what happened.
They described routine beatings and humiliations, medical neglect, and severe punishments in an isolation cell referred to as la isla, or ‘the island,’ where one of the men said was where they tortured them.
HRW and Cristosal confirmed similar evidence of abuse.
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The new report adds to the mounting evidence of the brutal treatment Venezuelan migrants suffered in El Salvador. Drawing on testimony from 40 former detainees and 150 relatives, lawyers, and witnesses across Venezuela, Colombia, and the U.S., it exposes widespread abuse and mistreatment inside CECOT.
The men were released in July as part of a prisoner swap, and several later described enduring severe abuse during their detention.
“They’re going to kill me here,” Neri Alvarado told Mother Jones he remembered thinking.
“If I survive, I’ll be locked up my entire life.”
Alvarado’s case was emblematic of the cruelty of the CECOT detentions.
You may remember him, he was was targeted by the DJT administration bc of his tattoos—the largest of which was an autism awareness ribbon adorned with the name of his younger brother.
Men like Neri had to wait to be free to tell us what happened.
They described routine beatings and humiliations, medical neglect, and severe punishments in an isolation cell referred to as la isla, or ‘the island,’ where one of the men said was where they tortured them.
HRW and Cristosal confirmed similar evidence of abuse.
2/4