US senator says El Salvador staged 'margarita' pics.

A US senator described Friday how El Salvador staged a photo of him supposedly sipping margaritas with a wrongly deported constituent to cover up the man’s ordeal in a notorious prison.

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Chris Van Hollen denied that he drank cocktails with Kilmar Abrego Garcia while in El Salvador to meet the man, who was removed in what the White House has admitted was an “administrative error”.

US President Donald Trump and Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele have refused to bring about the Maryland father’s release, despite a US federal judge’s order — backed by the Supreme Court — for his return.

Mr Van Hollen, a Democrat who represents Abrego Garcia’s home state, met the metal worker Thursday at the senator’s hotel in San Salvador.