An American Citizen Has Been Stuck in El Salvador’s…
Originally reported by The Intercept — 2026-02-01
When the cops arrived at a party in Cantón la Estancia, a tiny hamlet in the shadow of the San Miguel volcano, Walter Josué Huete Alvarado didn’t think he had any reason to worry. He had a minor infraction on his criminal record — a DUI when he was a teenager — but that shouldn’t matter in El Salvador. It happened in the United States, where he is a citizen. Yet Alvarado’s U.S. passport didn’t deter Salvadoran police from dragging him away, pointing to the tattoos on his hands and claiming he was a member of MS-13. It was May 2023, the third year of Joe Biden’s presidency. Alvarado, his relatives and legal counsel told The Intercept, is still incarcerated in El Salvador. Two years before the second Trump administration targeted Kilmar Ábrego García over his tattoos and sent him to a notori
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An American Citizen Has Been Stuck in El Salvador’s Prison System Since the Biden Administration — The Intercept
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