El Salvador has transferred over 2,000 gang members to the recently opened Centro de Confinamiento del Terrorismo (CECOT) in Tecoluca, as part of President Nayib Bukele's aggressive crackdown on crime. The facility, which has a capacity of 40,000 inmates and is considered the largest in the Americas, is designed to isolate gang members from the outside world, preventing them from orchestrating crimes from within prison walls. This move is part of a broader strategy that has seen the country's homicide rate drop to 1.5. The prison, which does not allow prisoner visits, has been widely supported by Salvadorans, with 96% approval. President Bukele's tough stance on crime contributed to his recent re-election with 85% of the vote.
VIDEO: More than 2,000 alleged gang members are being transferred from various prisons across El Salvador to a single security "mega-prison" at the Centro de Confinamiento del Terrorismo (CECOT) in Tecoluca. https://t.co/ZFMr3MajGb
VIDEO: More than 2,000 alleged gang members are being transferred from various prisons across El Salvador to a single security "mega-prison" at the Centro de Confinamiento del Terrorismo (CECOT) in Tecoluca. Rounding up more than 80,000 presumed gangsters under a state of… https://t.co/DPZyn94S3z
In El Salvador, 2,000 inmates accused of gang affiliation were transferred to the Terrorism Confinement Center. This facility, which does not allow prisoner visits, now houses thousands of accused or convicted gang members. https://t.co/mlhf2URTZ5
🇸🇻 INSIDE EL SALVADOR’S MEGA PRISON - 40,000 PERSON CAPACITY New photos have emerged showing the harsh conditions within El Salvador’s Centre for the Confinement of Terrorism, a mega-prison designed to house 40,000 gang members. President Nayib Bukele’s crackdown on gangs has… https://t.co/gf1aVTfx76
Considered to be the largest in the Americas, around 2,000 prisoners were moved to the recently-opened 40,000-person-capacity prison in El Salvador https://t.co/QegbKtuhjj
VIDEO: More than 2,000 alleged gang members are being transferred from various prisons across El Salvador to a single security "mega-prison" in Tecoluca as part of President Nayib Bukele's war on gangs https://t.co/f1lRhu8t5u
New pictures reveal savage mega-prison in El Salvador that was built to hold 40k inmates https://t.co/1o9XhiGCKQ https://t.co/H04LE7l94f
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El Salvador's government said it moved thousands of suspected gang members to a recently opened 'mega prison', the latest step in a controversial crackdown on crime that has caused the Central American nation's prison population to soar https://t.co/Usli3V3mkj
96% of Salvadorans support this massive gang and terrorist prison, that can hold up to 40,000 inmates. That's one reason president Bukele was just reelected with an astonishing 85% of the vote. Trudeau and Biden would probably accept them all as refugees. https://t.co/qm8a6LusIa
Welcome to hell: Inside brutal El Salvador mega prison where thousands of gang members are kept in cramped cells amid merciless crackdown on narco gangs https://t.co/4kdycJu8i7 https://t.co/QQiro2RDXb
Great news! Excellent work, @nayibbukele. Gang members cannot be permitted to infringe on the human rights of regular Salvadorans. CECOT looks great! https://t.co/bJO7PB60z6
Another 2000 gang members were transferred to the mega prison CECOT in El Salvador. President Bukele writes that they will be cut off from the outside, without the possibility of ordering crimes from prison The homicide rate in El Salvador is down to 1.5 https://t.co/nQe7etkOYj