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The Terrorism Confinement Center ( Spanish: Centro de Confinamiento del Terrorismo, abbreviated and commonly referred to as CECOT) is a maximum security prison located in Tecoluca, El Salvador. The prison was built from July 2022 to January 2023 amidst a large-scale gang crackdown in El Salvador. CECOT was opened by the Salvadoran government in ...
The Salvadoran gang crackdown, referred to in El Salvador as the régimen de excepción ( Spanish for state of exception) [3] and the guerra contra las pandillas (Spanish for war against gangs ), [4] began in March 2022 in response to a crime spike between 25 and 27 March 2022, when 87 people were killed in El Salvador.
History of violence in El Salvador. The Salvadoran Civil War, which lasted from 1979 to 1992, took the lives of approximately 80 000 soldiers and civilians in El Salvador. . Throughout the war, nearly half of the country's population fled from violence and poverty, and children were recruited as soldiers by both the military-run government and the guerrilla group Farabundo Martí National ...
At least 241 people have died in El Salvador prisons since the start of President Nayib Bukele's “war on gangs” two years ago, according to the organization Humanitarian Legal Relief. Ingrid ...
Officials in El Salvador have released footage showing tattooed and shaven inmates being transferred to their new “mega-prison.” The new Terrorism Confinement Centre in Tecoluca is now one of ...
With tattoo-covered faces, and wearing white shirts and shorts, gang members captured during El Salvador’s state of exception are gradually filling the country’s new mega prison. Unveiled ...
Suspected gang members in El Salvador have been moved to a new 'mega prison' amid criticism over human rights concerns. Around 2,000 people were transferred to a 40,000-capacity jail, however ...
Terrorism Confinement Center. Categories: Prisons by country. Prisons in North America by country. Government buildings in El Salvador. Residential buildings in El Salvador.