Those convicted of crimes would be held in prisons like CECOT. "We have offered the United States of America the opportunity to outsource part of its prison system," Bukele wrote in a Feb. 3 ...

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 are mass murderers ...