The U.S. Department of Justice stated on Friday that the third deportation flight carrying Venezuelan nationals to El Salvador last Saturday did not violate a court order, as all its passengers had final removal orders and none were expelled under the Alien Enemies Act.

“I don’t know the details of what those orders said, but what I understand and what I have been told is that everyone on the third plane had final removal orders,” said the State Department attorney during a hearing before U.S. District Judge James Boasberg in Washington, D.C.

On Saturday, Judge Boasberg issued an order to halt deportations based on Donald Trump’s invocation of the Alien Enemies Act, a 1798 law last used during World War II that allows for the summary removal of foreign nationals.

Despite the ruling, three flights departed from Texas that day, landing in El Salvador, where they handed over more than 200 Venezuelans—whom the U.S. government claims are members of the Tren de Aragua criminal gang—to local authorities, who agreed to imprison them.

Canada announced a new round of sanctions on Friday against eight senior Venezuelan officials, citing human rights violations and actions that undermine democracy in the South American nation.

The Canadian Ministry of Foreign Affairs identified the sanctioned individuals as Douglas Arnoldo Rico González, Carlos Enrique Terán Hurtado, Carlos Alberto Calderón Chirinos, Florencio Ramón Escalona, Leonel Alberto García Rivas, Ronny Fernando González Montesinos, Manuel Enrique Castillo Rengifo, and José Ramón Figuera Valdez.

All eight are linked to Venezuela’s security and armed forces under the regime of Nicolás Maduro.

For instance, Rico serves as the Director of the Scientific, Criminal, and Forensic Investigations Corps; Terán is the Director of Intelligence and Counterintelligence of the Bolivarian Army, and Calderón is the Deputy Director of the Directorate of Strategic and Tactical Actions of the National Police.

Uruguayan police are investigating the mysterious death of a German citizen, whose body was found in an advanced state of decomposition in a town in the western part of the country, local media reported on Friday.

Uwe Hartmann, 59, was discovered dead on January 30 in Riachuelo, a marina and vacation destination located about 170 km from Uruguay’s capital.

He was found inside an abandoned house owned by the Ministry of Transport and Public Works, with his hands and feet tied behind his back.

According to sources cited by the newspaper El País, Hartmann had legally entered Uruguay four years ago. Records show that he traveled through several departments in the western coastal region, and in recent times, he had been seen in Colonia del Sacramento, a historic city just 13 km from Riachuelo.