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

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1. 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](https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-ghana-deport-chutkan-ruling-b2827598.html), who agreed to indefinitely [detain dozens of Venezuelan deportees in a brutal prison.](https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-paid-el-salvador-cecot-nayib-bukele-b2824075.html)

   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](https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/cecot-prisoners-venezuela-el-salvador-b2795535.html), 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.](https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/no-kings-protest-trump-today-live-updates-b2847817.html)

2. Oh no, won’t somebody think of the drug gang members?

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