El Salvador, CECOT and Trump

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.
Inside El Salvador's mega-prison where Trump says he would jail Americans 'in a heartbeat'
The Terrorism Confinement Center (CECOT) in El Salvador, where President Donald Trump claimed he would jail US citizens in a 'heartbeat', can hold 40,000.
Is El Salvador Taking US Prisoners? What To Know
What To Know. Rubio met with Bukele at his lakeside country house outside San Salvador before announcing their agreement on Monday night, the Associated Press reported. Speaking a
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.
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 same prisons as adults, albeit in separate areas.
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.
Bukele Offers El Salvador’s Infamous Prison in Bid to Charm Trump
Unlike other Latin American leaders, El Salvador’s president is more than embracing US plans to move millions of undocumented ...
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 ...
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What to know about El Salvador's mega-prison after Trump deal to send people there
FILE - Inmates attend a class on social behavior from inside their shared cell during a press tour of the Terrorism Confinement Center, or CECOT, in Tecololuca, El Salvador, Oct. 12, 2023.
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El Salvador wants to detain deportees, including U.S. citizens, in notorious 'tropical gulag' terror prison
The Trump administration has warmly greeted an offer from El Salvador to detain both deported undocumented migrants and criminal U.S. citizens in a sprawling high-security prison that human rights ...
El Salvador to accept US deportees of any nationality and violent American criminals: Rubio
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio was visiting El Salvador on Monday to press a friendly government to do more to meet Trump ...