10/19/2025
October 19, 2025 Sources say a secret deal with El Salvador’s Bukele government traded protected witnesses for political favors and deportation optics. LCCN Staff Report In March 2025, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio allegedly promised Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele that Washington would return nine high-ranking members of the MS-13 gang—some of whom were working as U.S. government informants—in exchange for access to El Salvador’s notorious high-security prison and cooperation on a mass-deportation initiative....
October 19, 2025 Sources say a secret deal with El Salvador’s Bukele government traded protected witnesses for political favors and deportation optics. LCCN Staff Report In March 2025, U.S. Secreta…