El Salvador’s Nayib Bukele and Donald Trump at the White House in Washington, D.C., on April 14, 2025. Photo: Ken Cedeno/UPI/Bloomberg via Getty It seems as if the entire, dishonorable history of U.S. lawlessness in Latin America is distilled in the saga of Kilmar Ábrego García: the man whose illegal deportation to El Salvador and imprisonment in the country’s Terrorism Confinement Center has sparked outrage in the U.S. among human rights advocates and the Trump administration’s opponents. Some see Ábrego García’s arrival in El Salvador as marking a new, dark chapter in U.S. history, but Washington has long supported and...
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