He was arrested in El Salvador after the government declared war on the gangs in 2022. Vazquez explains that he expects to be incarcerated in CECOT "for the rest of my life." "We murdered a lot of ...

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 ...

The recent proposal by El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele to house convicted felons from the United States—including U.S. citizens—in the country's notorious CECOT mega-prison, also known as ...

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 ...

The American government has not yet said whether it plans to go ahead with sending U.S. prisoners to El Salvador, but Elon Musk, the tech billionaire who Trump has appointed to run the Department of ...

To accommodate its growing prison population, El Salvador constructed the Terrorism Confinement Center (CECOT), a megaprison with the capacity to hold 40,000 inmates. But overcrowding remains an ...