The author is not the first scholar to tackle the history of America—as in the American continent, not just the United States ...

Inside CECOT, as in the human zoos of old, the display takes fragments of the truth, ... Her stories have appeared in the Atlantic, the New York Review of Books, Fresh Air and KCRW.

Bukele has framed his $6 million deal with the White House to imprison immigrants in CECOT as a way to help a strong ally in the U.S. But he has also seized the moment for his own political gain ...

CECOT is in the rural area of Tecoluca, El Salvador, about 45 miles southeast of the nation’s capital of San Salvador. ... Inmates are not allowed to have books or other materials.

On May 18, relatives of the Venezuelan migrant detainees in El Salvador's mega prison CECOT, announced to a WhatsApp group the death of Marlene Ramirez, a grandmother who raised one of the men ...

US lawmakers were greeted with jeers, screams, and aggressive hand gestures from inmates in El Salvador’s notorious Terrorism Confinement Center (CECOT) mega-prison during a chaotic visit las… ...

More than two months after the Trump administration flew more than 200 people to a detention camp in El Salvador, there’s still a lot that remains unclear.

Nearly two months after more than 200 alleged Venezuelan gang members were sent to a Salvadoran prison, a judge heard arguments Wednesday over what happens next.

Americas. What is CECOT? Inside the El Salvador mega-prison holding US deportees. July 1, 2025. The U.S. has sent hundreds of mostly Venezuelan migrants to El Salvador to be held without trial in ...

Ecuadorean Ministers John Reimberg (Interior) and Gian Carlo Loffredo (Defense ) toured El Salvador’s Terrorism Confinement Center (Cecot) to pick up some ideas with which to build similar ...