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I am sure his other two tattoos are just as harmless, but why doesn't the article describe them? Telling me what one of the tattoos is but not the other two le

I am sure his other two tattoos are just as harmless, but why doesn't the article describe them? Telling me what one of the tattoos is but not the other two leaves me wondering if the article is trying to deceive me by omitting context. At the very least it is disrespectful to the reader for a journalist to only tell me the most sympathetic detail while presumably leaving out harmless but less emotive details, as though they think my tiny brain would be overloaded by that much detail.

spit2wind 2y ago
The article is a based on another article. Mother Jones appears to have broken the story: https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/03/trump-el-salvador-venezulea-deportation-prison-cecot-bukele/ https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/03/trump-el-salvad... Unfortunately, the article isn't well written (in my opinion) and it seems details of the other tattoos are not provided, although I may have missed it.
- financetechbro 2y ago
  FTA > The tattoo on Suárez’s neck is of a colibrí, a hummingbird. His wife said it is meant to symbolize “harmony and good energy.” She said his other tattoos, like a palm tree on his hand—an homage to Suárez’s late mother’s use of a Venezuelan expression about God being greater than a coconut tree—were similarly innocuous. Nevertheless, they may be why Suárez has been effectively disappeared by the US government into a Salvadoran mega-prison.
  - Ferret7446 2y ago
    Isn't that a question for the Salvadoran government? The US is responsible for deporting illegal immigrants, and it is up to El Salvador whether the persons are criminals that need to be imprisoned in El Salvador or left to return home like a regular Salvadoran citizen.
    - therealcamino 2y ago
      "Suárez, a 33-year-old native of Caracas, Venezuela" is in the second sentence of the Mother Jones article. He is not a Salvadoran citizen, he's been sent to a third country by the US.
xboxnolifes 2y ago
That was my first response as well, but my second response was that I don't support stop and frisk/question/detain with tattoos as the sole basis. No matter what the tattoo is. So, while the autism awareness is made front and center to rouse opposition, it's not relevant to the issue the article actually adresses.
93po 2y ago
They know people largely just read headlines and they want clickbait and outrage, so why bother doing real journalism

spit2wind 2y ago

The article is a based on another article. Mother Jones appears to have broken the story: https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/03/trump-el-salvador-venezulea-deportation-prison-cecot-bukele/ https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/03/trump-el-salvad... Unfortunately, the article isn't well written (in my opinion) and it seems details of the other tattoos are not provided, although I may have missed it.

financetechbro 2y ago
FTA > The tattoo on Suárez’s neck is of a colibrí, a hummingbird. His wife said it is meant to symbolize “harmony and good energy.” She said his other tattoos, like a palm tree on his hand—an homage to Suárez’s late mother’s use of a Venezuelan expression about God being greater than a coconut tree—were similarly innocuous. Nevertheless, they may be why Suárez has been effectively disappeared by the US government into a Salvadoran mega-prison.
- Ferret7446 2y ago
  Isn't that a question for the Salvadoran government? The US is responsible for deporting illegal immigrants, and it is up to El Salvador whether the persons are criminals that need to be imprisoned in El Salvador or left to return home like a regular Salvadoran citizen.
  - therealcamino 2y ago
    "Suárez, a 33-year-old native of Caracas, Venezuela" is in the second sentence of the Mother Jones article. He is not a Salvadoran citizen, he's been sent to a third country by the US.

xboxnolifes 2y ago

That was my first response as well, but my second response was that I don't support stop and frisk/question/detain with tattoos as the sole basis. No matter what the tattoo is. So, while the autism awareness is made front and center to rouse opposition, it's not relevant to the issue the article actually adresses.

93po 2y ago

They know people largely just read headlines and they want clickbait and outrage, so why bother doing real journalism