As the conversation meandered throughout the day, it occurred to me to get his thoughts on El Salvador President Nayib Bukele ...

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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, ...

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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 ...

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 warns that with the declaration of drug cartels as “terrorists,” any individual or legal entity that may be linked, ...

“Certainly, if I were leading the [Bureau of Prisons] or if I were working in the BOP, I wouldn’t want to suggest that there are any monstrous conditions in my facilities,” she said.