El Salvador, CECOT

CECOT: Inside the Mega-Prison El Salvador Has Offered Up for Trump's Use
Prisoners spend 23.5 hours a day locked in their cells, with a brief, daily 30-minute window for exercise or religious activities in a central hallway.
Inside El Salvador's notorious CECOT mega-prison, which could soon house deportees from the U.S.
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 Americans in El Salvador's prisons.
What to Know About El Salvador’s ‘Unprecedented’ Offer for the U.S. to ‘Outsource’ Its Detention of Prisoners and Deportees
Under U.S. immigration law, a country such as El Salvador can accept someone deported from the U.S. who isn’t a citizen of that country if the person’s homeland refuses to accept them, says Theresa Cardinal Brown, a former homeland security official under the administrations of Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama.
A look inside an El Salvador mega prison
El Salvador's president is offering to take in deportees and U.S. criminals at its prisons, including American citizens. CBS News correspondent Lilia Luciano got a rare first-hand look inside one of its mega prisons.
When El Salvador agreed to put migrants in "mega-prison," the U.S. paved the way for nuclear power
Bukele said he would charge the United States a "relatively low" fee to house convicted criminals in El Salvador's Terrorism Confinement Center, or CECOT, a mega-prison built to hold up to 40,000 people. He said the nominal cost for America would help make El Salvador's prison system sustainable.
Behind El Salvador's prison system that may handle U.S. deported migrants
CBS News' Lilia Luciano got a rare look at El Salvador's prison system after President Nayib Bukele offered to house dangerous deported migrants from the U.S. This comes as President Trump continues his efforts to crackdown on illegal immigration.
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Strategy’s founder Michael Saylor meets El Salvador President Nayib Bukele to discuss Bitcoin
El Salvador’s president Nayib Bukele and Strategy’s (formerly MicroStrategy) chairman Michael Saylor recently met for discus ...
Fugitive ‘hitman’ from El Salvador arrested while illegally hiding out in Seattle: ICE
Lozano, who is wanted in his native country on a spate of murder charges, was nabbed on Tuesday in Seattle, ICE said.
El Salvador to house minors convicted of organized crime in adult jails
El Salvador's Congress voted on Wednesday to allow minors convicted of crimes linked to organized crime to be housed in the ...
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What to know about El Salvador’s mega-prison after Trump deal to send people there
Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. The Trump administration and the president of El Salvador said ...
Bitcoin, crypto firms move to El Salvador, but success rides on banking access
Crypto businesses in El Salvador are hopeful that a Donald Trump presidency will soften banking resistance to the industry, ...
El Salvador’s Congress votes to eliminate public campaign financing
Lawmakers in El Salvador have taken advantage of a newly streamlined constitutional reform process to eliminate public ...
El Salvador Dispatch: Searching for Bitcoin City, the Modern El Dorado
This article is part of a four-piece series on El Salvador. You can find the previous dispatch, a story on Bitcoin Berlín, ...
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El Salvador's president Nayib Bukele meets with Michael Saylor to discuss Bitcoin
Nayib Bukele and Michael Saylor discuss Bitcoin in El Salvador amid regulatory changes affecting its legal tender status.
Ossoff calls on Trump admin to ‘publicly refuse’ El Salvador’s offer to jail Americans
Federal law does not allow the deportation of U.S. citizens, and El Salvador’s prisons are internationally notorious for life ...