The Latin American Report # 482

The controversy over the deportation of nearly 240 Venezuelan migrants—alleged members of the Tren de Aragua gang—to El Salvador, where they have been confined in Nayib Bukele's iconic mega-jail, continues to generate headlines at a pace only surpassed by the rare leak of messages shared by Trump administration officials via Signal. The U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit upheld on Wednesday the temporary ban on deportations linked to legislation from the late 18th century, to which Trump appealed, drawing on the narrative that the United States is facing an invasion by the certainly transnational Tren de Aragua. The latter would be acting directly or indirectly under the control of Caracas. U.S. District Judge James Boasberg has jumped into the public spotlight as the most visible face of a judiciary, which many indicate seems to be the only retaining wall against Trump's aggressive and disturbing agenda.
Only one judge appointed by the Republican leader—in his first term—disagreed with the decision not to stay Boasberg's order, which instead had the support of an appointee of former President George H.W. Bush. U.S. Circuit Judge Karen Henderson does not believe that the administration has a good point in using the Alien Enemies Act for immigration purposes, and also disputes that the presence of the Tren de Aragua, which in any case does not appear to have such a high level of organization and action in the United States, constitutes an act of war. The other key issue before the courts is whether the deportees are entitled to contest the claim that they are members of the referred gang, something many relatives reject, in many cases with entirely credible arguments and evidence. During yesterday's visit of U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, a scorching temperature of 32 degrees Celsius was reported in the barrack chosen for her tour. “This unprecedented relationship we have with El Salvador is going to be a model for other countries on how they can work with America,” said Noem, who met with Bukele and then left for Colombia.
I toured the CECOT, El Salvador’s Terrorism Confinement Center.
— Secretary Kristi Noem (@Sec_Noem) March 26, 2025
President Trump and I have a clear message to criminal illegal aliens: LEAVE NOW.
If you do not leave, we will hunt you down, arrest you, and you could end up in this El Salvadorian prison. pic.twitter.com/OItDqNsFxM
Funny Grok. Not so fast, Nayib 👇
Sheinbaum https://t.co/eAzQ4h3sdK pic.twitter.com/60ivAF7RWR
— Grok (@grok) March 26, 2025
The tariff saga
USMCA-compliant automobile parts are exempted from this 👇.
WATCH: US President Donald Trump announced plans for tariffs of up to 25% on automotive imports, widening the global trade war he kicked off https://t.co/D2ETDTY0LH pic.twitter.com/zLNejpEuWL
— Reuters Business (@ReutersBiz) March 27, 2025
Brazil update
As expected 👇
Brazil ex-President Bolsonaro will stand trial over an alleged coup plan. Here’s what happens next https://t.co/YQaRdTPt7m
— Kamal Mustafa ✪ (@MeKamalMustafa) March 27, 2025


The real problem is that there is so much deception and duplicity involved in this political environment that no one is accurately considering or representing any of the actors involved. It is not Caracas, a foreign enemy, that is infiltrating the United States of America with TdA gang members, but the CIA, making the enemy involved American traitors using the power of the USG purse against it's people, that may, or may not, be opposed to the current US President. Again, there's so much deception and duplicity involved it's hard to tell.
Anyway, starting from such an inaccurate conception of the actual actors, means, and unconstitutional betrayals ongoing makes arriving at a just resolution of the actual problem very difficult for a lawful court, and no one intimately familiar with US courts won't break out into deep guffaws of belly laughter at the characterization of US courts as lawful. They are as corrupt as can be found anywhere. The US of A has the best legal system money can buy, and that is an accurate description of the most corrupt courts that exist.
Jesus correctly observed that a house divided against itself cannot stand, and a hopelessly inadequate description of this legal contest, which is all we have the capacity to form, is that the USG is infiltrated by traitors that have funded, trained, and armed foreign drug cartels, such as TdA, and directed the infiltration of such drug cartels, and specifically the TdA, into the USA as an act of war treasonously. The US Presidential administration, in the official conduct of it's duties as the executive American government, is exfiltrating the invading drug cartels infiltrating the US as part of the traitorous scheme of rogue USG agents, and the US federal courts are challenging the exfiltration of the enemies of the USG that are directed by USG traitors by the USG by the USG.
It would be difficult to find a house more divided against itself, or a legal case less likely to be justly adjudicated.
I don't have any legal issue with foreign enemies being sent to foreign territories. The US Constitution only regards Americans, and has no lawful jurisdiction over non-Americans. The real problem is when American civilians are exfiltrated from their natal homeland as if they were similarly unprotected by the US Constitution. That is unlawful, unjust, and shall not be allowed by just and lawful courts - but that is exactly what has been happening in the USA since 9/11, with the USG assassinating American born Americans, including children, without even bothering to make the barest accusation of any crime whatsoever, much less having convicted them of capital offenses for which they can be lawfully executed - if they were adults and legally responsible for their actions by law. There is no longer any regard or respect for the rule of law, the Constitutional rights the USG is formed only to protect, and instead it's agents (John Yee, legal counsel to President George W. Bush) have declared that the US President has the authority to crush the testicles of an innocent child to interrogate their parents.
The USG has been an unlawful rogue treason for decades now, and this present farcical adjudication has no potential to restore it to just and lawful operations, nor any likelihood of making a just and lawful ruling by the USG on the USG's acts of war against the US population, the USG is claiming to oppose by claiming the power to ignore the Constitutional proscriptions that are the source of the USG. It's all but impossible for any kind of just or lawful adjudication to come from such internal wrangling, treason, and corruption.
Thanks!
Hello friend. As always, your insightful feedback opens me to new perspectives and knowledge. I understand the point about the drift of American democracy and all that is now shrouding it in darkness. Then, I found your allusion to the CIA particularly interesting because it seems to be an agency come to grief when we compare its presence in the media and public discussion to 50 years ago. However, bad things continue and will continue to happen related to these grim bodies. Thanks from the Island.
From it's initial formation, the CIA has been smuggling drugs and capturing the black markets of the world, which has largely been accomplished in the ~80 years the CIA has been in operation. I am poorly informed, because of the deception that such criminal organizations maintain about their crimes, but my understanding is that the CIA has spawned all drug cartels, all child sex slavery, and all organ trafficking markets, or at least has been deeply involved in them.
Were these, and the other sinister predations on humanity, charged, prosecuted, and adjudicated with the guilty parties justly imprisoned and executed for their capital crimes, I'd agree the CIA had come to grief.
From what I can see, it is coming into it's power as war it has fomented burgeons across European US allies. Kissinger pointed out that it was dangerous to be an enemy of the US, but it was fatal to be it's ally.