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February 9, 2024
San Salvador, Feb 8 (EFE).- A court in El Salvador held a virtual mass hearing on Thursday against 492 gang leaders of the Mara Salvatrucha (MS13), including high-ranking leaders, for more than 37,000 crimes. President Nayib Bukele’s prison reforms, passed by Congress, allowed for mass criminal trials without the need to individualize the responsibility of …
February 3, 2024
The president of El Salvador began his political career as a small-town mayor, realizing his destiny for power.
January 4, 2024
A murder rate that peaked at 106 per 100,000 nine years ago collapsed to 2.4 last year, making 2023 the safest year in El Salvadors history after a mass round-up of suspected gang members
June 6, 2023
Pro-Israel and Muslim, Nayib Bukele is a new breed of Latin American strongman
May 14, 2023
Officials from other Latin American countries have voiced their intentions to imitate Mr. Bukele’s anti-crime measures.
March 15, 2023
The second group of 2,000 inmates were moved today amid tight security to the new Izalco prison, the largest mega-prison in the Americas, which was built to accommodate more than 40,000 people.
February 27, 2023
The government of El Salvador has opened the world’s largest prison as part of the countrys major crackdown on the MS-13 gang, a move that the countrys president said was the opposite response to how the United States was "protecting criminals."
February 24, 2023
A mega-prison in El Salvador has opened its doors for its first 2,000 inmates of suspected gang members - who upon their arrival found out there are not enough beds and no mattresses at all.
February 24, 2023
San Salvador, Feb 24 (EFE).- Salvadoran authorities moved 2,000 accused gang members to a recently completed maximum-security prison, President Nayib Bukele said Friday. “Today before dawn, in a single operation, we transferred the first 2,000 gang members to the Center for Terrorism Confinement (CECOT),” he wrote on Twitter. “This will be their new house, where …
February 4, 2023
By Sara Acosta San Salvador, Feb 3 (EFE).- The Salvadoran government is poised to open the largest prison in the Western Hemisphere, designed to hold as many as 40,000 gang members incommunicado. Known officially as the Center for Terrorism Confinement, the facility was built on a parcel of 165.2 hectares (407,901 acres) in a rural …