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.

6 days 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 citizens and Secretary of State ...

5 days ago · El Salvador has offered to house convicted American criminals and deportees in its mega-prison for a fee. US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has called it the ‘most unprecedented and extraordinary migratory agreement’. Known as CECOT, the prison in the Central American country has been called ‘inhumane’ by rights groups

5 days ago · Even before the campaign against gangs, El Salvador’s prisons were notoriously violent and overcrowded but the crown jewel of Bukele’s fight is the Terrorism Confinement Center, or CECOT, he ...

6 days ago · Watch: Rare video shows El Salvador inmates in their cells in mega-jail The mega-jail, also known as Cecot (short for Terrorism Confinement Centre), has become emblematic of Bukele's iron-fist ...

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...

Jan 31, 2025 · 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.

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...

Aug 26, 2024 · For more than two years, the 26-year-old tractor driver has been in prison in El Salvador, accused of “gang association”, even though the country’s legal system has twice ordered his ...

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 …