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 ...

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San Salvador — It takes about 90 minutes to drive from El Salvador’s capital, San Salvador, to the most notorious prison in the country. Opened in 2023, the Center for the Confinement of Terrorism, ...

and hold them in the country’s infamous and controversial mega-prison, CECOT, in exchange for a fee that Bukele said “would be relatively low for the U.S. but significant for” El Salvador as ...

and hold them in the country’s infamous and controversial mega-prison, CECOT, in exchange for a fee that Bukele said “would be relatively low for the U.S. but significant for” El Salvador as ...

What is the CECOT? 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 ...