1 day ago · SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) — The Trump administration and the president of El Salvador said Monday that they’d struck a deal allowing the U.S. to ship both detained migrants and imprisoned citizens to the tiny Central American nation, which has suspended some basic rights as it battles powerful street gangs.. The U.S. government cannot deport American …

1 day ago · FILE - Inmates attend a class on social behavior from inside their shared cell during a press tour of the Terrorism Confinement Center, or CECOT, in Tecololuca, El Salvador, Oct. 12, 2023.

The Terrorism Confinement Center (Spanish: Centro de Confinamiento del Terrorismo, abbreviated and commonly referred to as CECOT) is a maximum security prison located in Tecoluca, El Salvador. The prison was built in late 2022 amidst a large-scale gang crackdown in El Salvador and was opened by the Salvadoran government in January 2023.

1 day ago · El Salvador President Nayib Bukele on a post on X (formerly Twitter): "We are willing to take in only convicted criminals (including convicted U.S. citizens) into our mega-prison (CECOT) in ...

1 day ago · The prison has allowed El Salvador to crack down on gang violence and murders, but human rights violations have been flagged at the jail. AP. The CECOT prison lies 47 miles southeast of the ...

1 day ago · The Terrorism Confinement Center (CECOT), a 57-acre (23-hectare) "mega-prison", is located 70 km (43.5 miles) east of the capital, San Salvador, in a rural region of the Tecoluca district.

5 days ago · CECOT is home to around 15,000 inmates, and it can hold up to 40,000. The high-security prison is a key part of President Nayib Bukele's program to combat serious gang crime in El Salvador.

Nov 6, 2024 · After leaving the sterile and muted interior of Cecot, we join a force of approximately 2,500 police and soldiers patrolling a neighborhood in San Salvador flagged for potential remnants of...

El Centro de Confinamiento del Terrorismo (CECOT) fue inaugurado el 31 de enero de 2023 y las autoridades salvadoreñas han destinado su recinto para la detención de terroristas vinculados a las estructuras de la Mara Salvatrucha, Mara Barrio 18 y …

Feb 15, 2024 · We are in Cecot (Centre for the Confinement of Terrorism), a maximum security jail built a year ago by the Salvadoran government to imprison "high-ranking" members of the country's main...