The Trump administration sent 137 Venezuelan men to El Salvador's Sicot prison in March 2026.
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Behind the BastardsOct 3, 2026
The sources support the core event: the Trump administration sent 137 Venezuelan men to El Salvador's CECOT prison, but they show this happened in March 2025, not March 2026.
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… After putting Tindaragua on the FTO list, the Trump administration invoked the Alien Enemies Act to declare that Tindaragua was engaged in a quote unquote invasion of the Us. On behalf of the Venezuelan government. It used this as pretext to send 137 Venezuelan men with seemingly no connection at all to the gang to El Salvador's Sicot prison in March, where they suffered from torture. Along similar lines, in November 2025, the Us. Listed the Cartel de los Soles as an FTO. …
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Contradicts. The sources date the transfer to March 2025: a March 2026 Washington Post piece refers to the deportation on March 15 "of last year," and an NPR piece describes it as happening "last year." This contradicts the claim's March 2026 date.[1][3]
Supports. Multiple sources report that the Trump administration sent 137 Venezuelan men to the Terrorism Confinement Center (CECOT) in El Salvador under the Alien Enemies Act.[2][3][4]
Context. The post itself dates other events precisely (for example, "November 2025") and gives no year for the CECOT transfer, so "in March" most plausibly refers to March 2025; the 2026 year appears only in the extracted claim.
Context. The men were held for about four months and then returned to Venezuela in a prisoner swap in July 2025, as reported in later coverage of the Alien Enemies Act litigation.[2][5]
Sources
5 sources: 2 tier 2, 3 not rated
- 1Deportees sent by Trump to Salvadoran prison are still stuck a year laterwashingtonpost.com · tier 2 · cited for: contradicts
- 2Judge orders return of Venezuelans formerly detained in El ...nbcnews.com · tier 2 · cited for: supports, context
- 3Federal judge orders return of Venezuelan migrants deported to El ...nprillinois.org · not rated · cited for: contradicts, supports
- 4Judge says US must help bring back a handful of Venezuelans deported to notorious prisonnews4jax.com · not rated · cited for: supports
- 5Venezuelan men shipped to brutal prison under Alien Enemies Act ask court for due processidahocapitalsun.com · not rated · cited for: context
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