{"id":269198,"date":"2025-03-28T22:50:19","date_gmt":"2025-03-28T22:50:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/28\/kristi-noems-rolex-at-el-salvador-prison-draws-attention\/"},"modified":"2025-03-28T22:50:19","modified_gmt":"2025-03-28T22:50:19","slug":"kristi-noems-rolex-at-el-salvador-prison-draws-attention","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/28\/kristi-noems-rolex-at-el-salvador-prison-draws-attention\/","title":{"rendered":"Kristi Noem\u2019s Rolex at El Salvador Prison Draws Attention"},"content":{"rendered":"
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What do you wear on a visit to one of the world\u2019s most notorious prisons?<\/p>\n

If you\u2019re Kristi Noem, the homeland security secretary who visited El Salvador\u2019s massive Terrorism Confinement Center<\/a> on Wednesday, the answer was a white long-sleeve top, gray slacks and a baseball cap emblazoned with the Immigration and Customs Enforcement logo.<\/p>\n

Oh, and a gold Rolex Cosmograph Daytona that sells for about $50,000<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Ms. Noem traveled to the prison, known as Cecot, where the Trump administration this month sent hundreds of Venezuelan deportees. Earlier this week, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit denied the government\u2019s attempts to restart the deportations, which a federal judge had blocked earlier in March. On Friday, the Trump administration asked the Supreme Court<\/a> to allow it to resume the deportations.<\/p>\n

At Cecot, as Ms. Noem filmed a video<\/a> in front of a row of prisoners that were crowded tightly into bunks behind bars, her flashy watch bulged from her wrist, standing out in an austere scene.<\/p>\n

The display led to a great deal of criticism on social media from people who questioned the taste of wearing such a pricey watch for the visit. Cecot, which opened in 2023 and was designed to hold as many as 40,000 prisoners, was a signature initiative of Nayib Bukele, the El Salvadoran president who has gained an international reputation for dealing with his country\u2019s gang problem through mass incarceration \u2014 a campaign that has been criticized by multiple human rights groups.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n