France, Sept. 22 -- Glenda and Karen have spent more than a year trying to find their brothers, Elmer Concepcion Romero Janes and Kevin Rolando Barrera Torres. RFI met the two women in El Salvador, where their search has taken them from government offices to prisons, with few answers.

"My brother has disappeared. He has been held for more than a year without any legal process. We would like proof that he is all right, because we can't go on living with this uncertainty," Glenda told RFI.

Elmer and Kevin were among a group of Salvadorans flown from the US to El Salvador on military flights between March and April 2025. On the same flights were 252 Venezuelans, who were sent not to their own country but to El Salvador. Both governments de...