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Montevideo, May 17th 2025 - 02:36 UTC

Tag: Confinement Center for Terrorism (CECOT)

  • Monday, May 5th 2025 - 10:24 UTC

    Trump wants Alcatraz reopened as a prison, not a tourist attraction

    “The reopening of ALCATRAZ will serve as a symbol of Law, Order and JUSTICE,” Trump claimed

    US President Donald Trump announced this weekend plans to reopen and expand Alcatraz, the former maximum-security prison on an island near San Francisco, which closed in 1963. The Republican leader intends to use the facility to house America’s “most violent” criminals, including repeat offenders and potentially undocumented immigrants with alleged criminal records. He directed the Federal Bureau of Prisons, Department of Justice, Department of Homeland Security, and FBI to execute this plan, emphasizing it as a symbol of “Law, Order, and Justice.”

  • Thursday, May 1st 2025 - 09:50 UTC

    Ecuadorean ministers tour infamous Salvadoran jail to pick up some ideas

    The Cecot is said to house some 15,000 inmates and has also been opened to US deportees

    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 facilities in their country, known for its prison violence problems.

  • Monday, April 14th 2025 - 18:56 UTC

    Bukele becomes first LatAm leader Trump welcomes at White House

    Bukele insisted he does not have the authority to return Kilmar Abrego Garcia to the United States

    Presidents Donald Trump of the United States and Nayib Bukele of El Salvador got together Monday morning at the White House, marking the Central American visitor the first Latin American leader to he hosted by the Republican head of State since his return to office. It was also the first visit by a Salvadoran president since 2014, when Barack Obama welcomed Salvador Sánchez Cerén.

  • Monday, March 24th 2025 - 08:59 UTC

    Maduro agrees to Trump’s repatriation flights for deported Venezuelans

    In a televised speech, Maduro also addressed Nayib Bukele, the president of El Salvador, telling him “you're responsible.”

    Venezuela has agreed with the US Trump administration to resume repatriation flights for deported Venezuelan nationals, officials announced confirming first flights on Sunday. Jorge Rodriguez, Venezuela's National Assembly President said the goal was to “ensure the return of our countrymen with the protection of their human rights.”

  • Wednesday, March 19th 2025 - 10:47 UTC

    Caracas warns against US travel

    Jorge Rodríguez likened Washington's measure to a “vulgar kidnapping”

    Venezuela's Bolivarian Government issued earlier this week a travel advisory warning its citizens against visiting the United States following Washington's deportation of many Tren de Aragua gang members to El Salvador's maximum security Cecot prison.

  • Monday, March 17th 2025 - 12:43 UTC

    US convicts transferred to El Salvador's maximum security Cecot prison

    The US will pay El Salvador “a small fee” for housing these convicts at the Cecot (Pic EFE)

    Salvadoran authorities Sunday received 238 members of the Venezuelan Tren de Aragua and 23 members of the Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13) gangs, expelled from the United States under the 1798 Alien Enemies Act, a law unused since World War II. President Nayib Bukele acknowledged their arrival and immediate transfer to the maximum-security Terrorism Confinement Center (Cecot), built in 2023 to house high-profile criminals.

  • Monday, June 17th 2024 - 07:11 UTC

    Argentina's Security Minister gets first-hand glimpse of “Bukele Model”

    Bullrich and her Salvadoran colleague Gustavo Villatoro toured the infamous CECOT prison

    Argentina's Security Minister Patricia Bullrich Sunday visited El Salvador's controversial Confinement Center for Terrorism (CECOT), probably seeking to replicate the model in her country, it was reported. Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele had told her he was open to giving Argentina any assistance it might need regarding security issues.