Except as applies to the corporations.

Exactly. Why return to El Salvador people who have cases pending in the US? Except, of course, if there are other negotiations at play. This is a Bukele involved operation after all.

Because the US is obsessed with (mostly male)sports, fame, and money. I'm waiting to see how NFL players' class consciousness is motivating them to support struggling unions everywhere.

Dios los cría y el diablo y todos los demonios los juntan. (Y no me refiero a los deportados)

Dictator manual: reverse only the most media visible part and do it again once everyone is convinced it was just a glitch. The "reversing" convinces the willfully "neutral" that it was not what all the radicals were saying it was. He really isn't as stupid as he looks. He can follow the manual.