A group of Venezuelan men who were deported from the United States to El Salvador's notorious CECOT maximum-security prison have filed a proposed class-action lawsuit against two U.S. aviation companies, alleging the carriers knowingly participated in unlawful deportation flights that resulted in months of arbitrary detention and torture.
The lawsuit, filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, names New Mexico-based CSI Aviation and Florida-based Global Crossing Airlines, better known as GlobalX, as defendants. The plaintiffs accuse the companies of civil rights violations, false imprisonment, negligence and complicity in transporting more than 230 Venezuelans to El Salvador despite a federal court order directing that the deportation flights be halted or returned.
