The president of El Salvador, Nayib Bukele, plans to double the size of the Megacárcel Center for Confinement of Terrorism (CECOT), where they keep more than 15,000 people housed, including more than 200 immigrants sent by the United States, as reported on Wednesday the Wall Street Journal.
The plan was revealed by the Salvadoran president to the US Secretary of National Security, Kristi Noem, during his visit last month to inspect the jail, according to the sources cited by the newspaper.
The CECOT, which has been known for the complaints of human rights abuse, charged notoriety again last March, when it received more than 200 immigrants, the majority Venezuelans, sent by the Government of Donald Trump, as part of his crusade against the criminal foreign assumptions.
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Inaugurated in 2023, the prison has been promoted by the Salvadoran government as the “largest” in Latin America.
Last Monday the US president personally thanked the collaboration of his Salvadoran counterpart by keeping immigrants arrested.
In addition, Trump paid the land to make Bukele walk the expansion initiative by reiterating his intention to send to prison in El Salvador to US citizens who commit violent crimes.
“I don’t know what the laws are, but we also have local criminals and I would like to include them in the group of people we get from this country,” the president told Bikele at a meeting at the White House.
Trump insisted again in this idea and was captured by the microphones telling the Central American president that the ‘local’ (an expression used to refer to alleged terrorists born in the US) “will be the following (…) you will have to build as five more prisons.”
Bukele has presumed the high security of his prison that keeps immigrants detained incommunicado, although they have not been proven that they have pending crimes such as the Salvadoran Kilmar Abrego García, sent by an administrative error to that jail.
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The case that unleashed a legal battle that has already reached the US Supreme Court motivated the American senator Chris van Hollen (Democrat) to travel on Wednesday to El Salvador to demand the release of Ábrego García.
With EFE information
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