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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

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Mon Oct 20, 2025, 01:51 PM Oct 2025

Marco Rubio betrayed drug gang informants to seal El Salvador prison deal, report says

Secretary of State Marco Rubio reportedly agreed to abandon confidential informants who were protected by the U.S. government to seal a deal with El Salvador’s president, who agreed to indefinitely detain dozens of Venezuelan deportees in a brutal prison.

The arrangement, inked in the days leading up to Donald Trump’s invocation of the Alien Enemies Act to summarily deport alleged Venezuelan gang members, gave the administration access to the notorious Terrorism Confinement Center, or CECOT, decried by human rights groups as a “tropical gulag” and concentration camp that has been central to a first wave of the president’s mass deportation agenda.

On a March 13 phone call, Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele agreed to the deal, on the condition that MS-13 gang members Bukele wanted imprisoned in his jail were actually “informants” protected by the Department of Justice, according to The Washington Post.

Rather than dismissing the idea, Rubio agreed to speak with Attorney General Pam Bondi to abandon those protections, adding another layer to a secret agreement exposed in court documents and reporting in the wake of a months-long ordeal that ultimately led to a prisoner exchange and the release of 250 Venezuelans from CECOT to their home country this summer.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/marco-rubio-betrayed-drug-gang-205536878.html

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Marco Rubio betrayed drug gang informants to seal El Salvador prison deal, report says (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Oct 2025 OP
Little Marco better be careful in the future. kimbutgar Oct 2025 #1
Informants are very important in combating organized crime. That's what these gangs are. everyonematters Oct 2025 #2
why did Nayib Bukele want the names of MS13 informants??? lapfog_1 Oct 2025 #3
No one can trust the little weasel Marco. DuaneT Oct 2025 #4

everyonematters

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2. Informants are very important in combating organized crime. That's what these gangs are.
Mon Oct 20, 2025, 02:29 PM
Oct 2025

How many informants have they deported?

lapfog_1

(31,932 posts)
3. why did Nayib Bukele want the names of MS13 informants???
Mon Oct 20, 2025, 02:29 PM
Oct 2025

Could it be that he has ties to the leaders of MS13 and this was some sort of payback?

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