Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced last week that President Nayib Bukele of El Salvador had agreed to accept deportees from the U.S. convicted of crimes, and also offered to house incarcerated ...

In this handout picture provided by the Salvadoran presidency inmates observe from a cell inside the mega- prison Terrorist Confinement Centre (CECOT) on June 11, 2024 in Tecoluca, El Salvador.

Bukele ordered the mega-prison built as he began his campaign against El Salvador’s gangs in March 2022. It opened a year later in the town of Tecoluca, about 72 kilometers (45 miles) east of the ...

Donald Trump has been offered the use of El Salvador’s infamous CECOT mega-prison as he seeks to deport criminals from the US ...

Migrants deported from the US, and even “dangerous” American citizens convicted of heinous crimes could be headed to a notorious hellhole prison in El Salvador ... at CECOT, so the prisoners ...

El Salvador ... The CECOT prison has been central to Bukele's aggressive crackdown on gang violence since he took office in 2019. The prison, designed to hold up to 40,000 inmates, many of whom ...

SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP ... Confinement Center, or CECOT, he opened in 2023. In slickly produced videos, prisoners in boxer shorts are marched into prison yards and made to sit nearly ...