The Terrorism Confinement Center (Spanish: Centro de Confinamiento del Terrorismo, abbreviated and commonly referred to as CECOT) is a maximum security prison located in Tecoluca, El Salvador. The prison was built in late 2022 amidst a large-scale gang crackdown in El Salvador and was opened by the Salvadoran government in January 2023.

6 天之前 · 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 45 miles east of the capital.

5 天之前 · Inside El Salvador’s mega-prison. El Salvador’s mega-prison that can reportedly hold up to 40,000 inmates was built after President Bukele’s order as he cracked down on gang violence in 2022. CECOT opened a year later in the town …

5 天之前 · 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 ...

2024年11月6日 · After leaving the sterile and muted interior of Cecot, we join a force of approximately 2,500 police and soldiers patrolling a neighborhood in San Salvador flagged for potential remnants of...

6 天之前 · Watch: Rare video shows El Salvador inmates in their cells in mega-jail The mega-jail, also known as Cecot (short for Terrorism Confinement Centre), has become emblematic of Bukele's iron-fist ...

2025年1月31日 · CECOT is home to around 15,000 inmates, and it can hold up to 40,000. The high-security prison is a key part of President Nayib Bukele's program to combat serious gang crime in El Salvador.

2024年2月15日 · We are in Cecot (Centre for the Confinement of Terrorism), a maximum security jail built a year ago by the Salvadoran government to imprison "high-ranking" members of the country's main...

El Centro de Confinamiento del Terrorismo (CECOT) fue inaugurado el 31 de enero de 2023 y las autoridades salvadoreñas han destinado su recinto para la detención de terroristas vinculados a las estructuras de la Mara Salvatrucha, Mara Barrio 18 y …

2024年8月26日 · For more than two years, the 26-year-old tractor driver has been in prison in El Salvador, accused of “gang association”, even though the country’s legal system has twice ordered his ...