Nayib Bukele, the president of El Salvador, has released new footage from the Center of Confinement of Terrorism, the controversial mega-prison built in 2022 as part of a crackdown on street gangs and criminal organizations.
The video was published to announce the transfer of 2,000 gang members from the Izalco, Ciudad Barrios, and San Vicente detention centers to the maximum security prison known as CECOT.
“There, they will pay for the crimes committed against our people, isolated from the outside world, without any possibilities of leaving or organizing crimes from prison,” Bukele wrote on X (formerly known as Twitter) on Tuesday (June 11).
