Ricardo Prada Vásquez, a 32-year-old Venezuelan immigrant legally residing in the United States, has apparently been disappeared to El Salvador’s notorious Center for the Confinement of Terrorism (CECOT) after mistakenly turning onto the Ambassador Bridge in Detroit, Michigan.

The bridge, one of North America’s busiest international crossings, links Detroit with Windsor, Ontario. Due to the complexity of nearby highways, even local residents occasionally take the wrong ramp. For Prada, this innocent mistake led to arrest, imprisonment, and deportation—culminating in his disappearance into a foreign prison.

  • Muad'dib@sopuli.xyz
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    12 hours ago

    Kidnapping implies isolated incidents and criminals working outside the government. Disappearing points out that the government is responsible, it’s harsher language

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      12 hours ago

      Yes, criminals kidnap.

      Governments black bag/disappear people.

      Disappearing a person has far more darker undertones, too. kidnapping, at least theres a chance there might be a ransom.