Evaluating Spanky's Central / South American, Dictatorship-Style "Disappearing"-Option

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SPECIAL EVENT:
Lessons From Latin America As United States Reckons With Enforced Disappearance
April 23, 2025
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"Enforced disappearance is not codified in U.S. law as a standalone crime. Nonetheless, we are starting to see across the United States actions targeting immigrants that could meet the definition. As of late April, the Trump administration has sent 288 people, most of them citizens of Venezuela, to a notorious prison in El Salvador. It has happened with a near-total lack of transparency.
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Neither the U.S. nor the Salvadoran government has shared the names of these 288 individuals: what we and their loved ones know comes from media leaks or from victims’ legal actions, as in the case of Kilmar Abrego Garcia. All are now being held in a Salvadoran mega-prison in an extra-judicial manner, without charges or any hope of a day in court. This is enforced disappearance.
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Latin America has a long and brutal legacy of the use of enforced disappearance."

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