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

The lockup currently houses thousands of members of gangs that terrorized the Central American country for decades.

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 ...

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.

Argentina's Security Minister Patricia Bullrich Sunday visited El Salvador's controversial Confinement Center for Terrorism (CECOT), probably seeking to replicate the model in her country ...

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.

As part of President Nayib Bukele's ongoing crusade against gangs in El Salvador, the government opened the Counter-Terrorism Confinement Center (CECOT) in Tecoluca, which will soon mark its ...

El Salvador’s Terrorism Confinement Center, under President Nayib Bukele's administration, represents a severe crackdown on gang violence, leading to significant human rights concerns.

President Nayib Bukele had proposed to take people deported from the US, regardless of nationality, and put them in prisons like the Terrorism Confinement Center ( CECOT). Speaking about the ...