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 ...

Prisoners spend 23.5 hours a day locked in their cells, with a brief, daily 30-minute window for exercise or religious ...

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced during a visit to El Salvador that Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele has ...

Nayib Bukele, El Salvador’s millennial dictator, has offered to house migrants and “dangerous criminals” deported by the ...

The Trump administration and the president of El Salvador said they struck a deal allowing the U.S. to ship detained migrants ...

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 ...

El Salvador’s notorious Terrorism Confinement Center has been hailed as the nation’s solution to rampant gang violence, but ...

One of El Salvador’s prisons, a so-called mega prison or “Terrorism Confinement Centre”, has garnered much attention under Mr Bukele. The vast 410-acre complex was opened in 2023 and has the ...

By Annie Correal and Emiliano Rodríguez Mega Reporting from ... documented by several groups. Mr. Bukele’s prisons are not typical penitentiaries. El Salvador’s gangs once used jails as ...

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said late Monday that El Salvador’s president has offered to accept deportees from the US ...

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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 (45 miles ...