El Salvador’s president, Nayib Bukele, has offered to house in Salvadoran prisons U.S.-deported immigrants of any nationality ...

Bukele has made El Salvador's prison system — known for rampant human rights violations, violence and overcrowding — part of his anti-crime and anti-gang program. Since March 2022, more than ...

San Salvador — It takes about 90 minutes to drive from El ... prison's director affirms no prisoner there will ever step outside. Last week, Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced that Bukele ...

He told Rubio that El Salvador would be willing to ... according to government figures. Bukele opened a new maximum security prison in 2023 and imprisoned tens of thousands of alleged gang members ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.