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Salvadoran president says he won’t return wrongly deported man to U.S.

www.washingtonpost.com /politics/2025/04/14/trump-presidency-news-tariffs-deportations/

cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/61330470

Didn't they US used to send special forces out to rescue people like that in the past?

News @lemmy.world

www.washingtonpost.com /politics/2025/04/14/trump-presidency-news-tariffs-deportations/

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They’re all dead
- As a self-appointed satellite photo analyst, I should point out that the photo lacks time and context and is below the threshold of making any kind of identification.
  Violence by guards and inmates happens as a daily matter in a megaprison. If this is part of the same prison complex, then chances are high that it demonstrates violence that occurred to some other unfortunate persons or animals (the photo lacks resolution so badly that even human vs. animal identification is hard to make).
  (a larger photo should be published to provide context, and would be easy to publish for a person interested in proving things, so I caution against trusting the source too much - the source might be more interested in spreading a rumour that goes viral)
  These guys are likely still alive. But the chances of getting resistant tuberculosis in an El Salvadorian megaprison are extremely high. Besides gang and guard violene, spending time there can bring about a death sentence of a slow and paintful kind - carried out by bacteria that will reliably overcome a human immune system.
  
  is this more legitimate?
  
  Thank you, I checked it. Speculation: they are washing something there. Or it could be a slaughterhouse to prepare animals for food. One would find out by pointing a drone with a telephoto lens at the place. The spill of strange material is persistent over a month. Whatever they do there, they do it persistently.
  the L-shaped building pair is part of the CECOC prison complex
  it is within the security perimeter of the prison in general
  within the prison, it is within the security perimeter of the staff area (not inmate area)
  it appears to be an auxiliary building
  schematic here
  your satellite photo is from Maxar, copyrighted in 2025, date unknown
  there is a spill of something in the yard which might be speculated to be blood, and heaps of something in the yard
  for comparison, I opened Google Maps to view a photo
  I saw a different photo, but it likewise had an unidentified spill and unidentified material on the yard of the L-shaped building pair, but the arrangement differed somewhat
  in my photo, I observed yellowish brown material that could be used to clean up a spill (e.g. sand, sawdust) spread onto the yard
  I made an intermediate conclusion: the spill is not a unique thing from one day only, but has persisted there. Prison staff have at some time taken actions to clean up something there.
  Example image from March 11, 2025
  Result: to conclude "they're dead" about specific people is not logical.
  About the strange spill: satellite imagery does not permit to specifically identify what is going on there. An experienced intelligance analyst would be able to go deeper. To check if the contamination in the yard might be blood, I would find a known slaughterhouse in the region and compare images.
  
  I appreciate the well thought out response but this is a concentration camp. I think we are where we are politically is because we have downplayed the level of corruption we’re facing.

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