Senator Chris Van Hollen meets with Kilmar Abrego Garcia in El Salvador

I'm so glad he's alive. But he's probably back in that concentration camp by now.
I guess I gotta give van Hollen some credit for actually going there and demanding to see him. We might have no idea if he was dead if it weren't for that.
(Could have tried to smuggle him out though.)
- I'm disappointed that the senator wasn't willing to cause an international incident over this. Like handcuffing himself to Kilmar and leading him back to his plane, daring the el salvador cops to do something about it.
  
  That's a hell of a gamble with Trump as the president lol
  
  I couldn’t think of how he’d do it, I thought it would be hard.
  But no, that would have been pretty easy actually.

Honestly gotta give Van Hollen props here, at most I expected an AOC style photoshoot outside of the prison camp. Van Hollen actually getting to see and meet Garcia is good and he deserves credit for it. Maybe I've been underestimating the "resistance" here.

https://xcancel.com/nayibbukele/status/1913028548001923259
Nayib Bukele using the opportunity to deny that CECOT is a death camp or torture facility.
- I'm actually really happy to hear that he's alive. Worth knowing that to let Bukele do his dumb-ass lies I guess.
  
  Fuck him. But at least now Kilmar will probably be treated better since there is so much attention on him.
  Still the concentration camps go on
- Despot 101, make your torture camp look like White Lotus when the international press shows up.
  
  I wonder where the photos were taken. Did they go to a local restaurant?
- I was sure he was killed, chuds are in particular very savage.
- Deranged

Looking forward to the day Bukele outlives his usefulness to the US and joins Zelenskyy and Bin Laden in that one meme
- Unfortunately he's probably too independently wealthy for that to happen. The best we can hope for is that he actually pisses off MS-13 and gets car bombed or something.

Im shocked he's alive but that's good news to wake up to

Apparently Bukele photoshopped the images he tweeted.
In this one - on the rim of each glass he added salt and a cherry.
Kilmar Abrego Garcia, miraculously risen from the “death camps” & “torture”, now sipping margaritas with Sen. Van Hollen in the tropical paradise of El Salvador!🍹
https://xcancel.com/nayibbukele/status/1913028548001923259#m
- I don't think it's photoshopped. Probably more of a photo op. Bukele controls the prison. It's much easier to put down some props and take a photo than it would be to doctor the photo. The margarita glasses in the photo are separate from the water glasses. The Van Hollen photo has 3 glasses. The Bukele photo has 5 glasses. You can see that they have a different color liquid inside. A simple margarita is tequila, triple sec, and lime juice; it doesn't have to be blended with ice. Or it could just be water with food coloring added to a prop glass.
  I also viewed the image with an error analyzing software. Adding a new object in photoshop would create new jpeg artifacts around the object. Also the lightning of the the glasses would be very different than the lightning of the photo. If it was a photoshop. then it would be a very, very advanced photoshop. It's 1000x easier for Bukele to order his stooges "Put some margaritas on the table so that dumb Americans think the prison is like a vacation."
- What a sleazy scumbag

I'll be a monkey's uncle. Goddamn. I never expected this.

Really happy to see him alive

proof of life of the hostage

Well there it is. I can't understand why people thought this man was dead. Zero evidence, pure speculation. Liberal wish casting. Liberals are the ones who started this idea that he was dead. They wanted him dead in the same way they want Palestinians dead. So they can hold it over you.
The reality is this guy is being used to "show" that this place "isn't" torturous and murderous. That this place is "fine" if someone ends up there. As a means to counteract the news about the Republican torture tours.
He's a political asset and pawn. A "mascot" of the "fine service" El Salvador is providing.
- How is it "liberal wish casting" to be surprised that someone sent to a concentration camp is alive? Of course there was no evidence, they haven't released a single person from the place.
  
  Seriously, this liberal hating comment was such a stretch
- I can't understand why people thought this man was dead.
  Maybe because the Trump admin and Bukele were being very cagey and making every excuse to not confirm or deny that he was alive?
- I can't understand why people thought this man was dead.
  You can’t understand why people thought the guy the government disappeared into a foreign concentration camp then repeatedly and callously refused to demonstrate proof of life for might no longer be alive? How is that some huge leap in logic? And you’re framing this as if demanding proof of life was some con naive libs fell for. They should have, what, not looked into and just rolled over on the issue even more than they already have?
- he's right they're laundering the prison with the photos but i think it was reasonable to conclude the guy was dead from how the governments were acting.
- I guess? Politically speaking they would have wanted him kept well considering the people asking after him, but it's still politically a bad look on both governments if this guy is still not freed.
  I think they're making some attempts at damage control, I dont think it's surprising that people didn't expect a politician to bother trying to find him, and when one did they scrambled to spin a story.
  It'll work for some, but the crux is that both states claimed his freedom wasn't possible to facilitate because he couldn't be found, and now they'll have to keep justifying ways to keep him there, which in itself is just eyes on a story the governments of both countries would rather just go away.