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El Salvador offers to jail US convicts in ‘unprecedented’ proposal

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio (L) meets El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele at his residence in Lake Coatepeque, El Congo, February 3 [Handout/El Salvador's Presidency Press Office via AFP]

El Salvador’s president has proposed jailing convicts from the United States in his country, an “unprecedented” offer praised by US Secretary of State Marco Rubio.

Nayib Bukele made the offer while hosting Rubio at his Lake Coatepeque residence, outside San Salvador, on Monday.

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