Peruvian President Keiko Fujimori to Visit Bukele's CECOT Megaprison Amid Security Policy Debate

Counter-Terrorism Confinement Center (CECOT) mega-prison, where hundreds of MS-13 and 18th Street gang members are being held, in Tecoluca, El Salvador, on January 30, 2026. The CECOT, the largest prison in Latin America and emblem of the war against gangs of the government of President Nayib Bukele, celebrates two years since it was inaugurated on February 1. (Credit: Photo by Oscar Rivera / AFP via Getty Images)

Peru's Senate voted 37 to 11 to authorize President Keiko Fujimori's trip to El Salvador, where she is scheduled to tour CECOT — the sprawling maximum-security compound in Tecoluca that has become the most politically charged prison on the planet — before flying to Madrid for a regional summit.

The planned visit converts a diplomatic agenda item into a live policy statement: a sitting Latin American president walking through a facility designed to house up to 40,000 inmates, under conditions human rights monitors have called systematically abusive, at the explicit invitation of the president who ordered it built.