El Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele Tuesday got into a spat on X with former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton after Clinton criticized the conditions in the country’s maximum-security prison, the Terrorism Confinement Center. 

Clinton shared a PBS Frontline documentary about the center, known as CECOT. The video, titled “Surviving CECOT," features interviews with three Venezuelan men who the U.S. government accused of being members of the Tren de Aragua gang. The Trump administration deported the men, who deny being associated with the gang, to CECOT. 

In her post, Clinton suggested people could learn more about CECOT by watching the interviews of the men who the Trump administration branded “as gang members without evidence and deported them to the brutal El Salvadoran prison."

Bukele responded with an offer to release El Savador’s entire prison population to any country that would be willing to receive them. The only condition, he said, was that it must be the whole population. This action, he said, would provide journalists anandd NGOs with more interview subjects who are critical of the El Salvadoran government and “confirm whatever conclusions are already expected.” 

“Surely, if these testimonies reflect a systemic reality, a much larger pool of sources should only reinforce the claim, and many governments should be eager to offer protection. Until then, we will continue prioritizing the human rights of the millions of Salvadorans who today live free from gang rule,” Bukele said.