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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Maanvi Singh

US deportees face brutal conditions in El Salvador mega-prison: ‘Severe overcrowding, inadequate food’

aerial view of white buildings next to mountain
A mega-prison known as the Detention Center Against Terrorism (Cecot) in Tecoluca, El Salvador, on 5 March 2023. Photograph: Salvador Melendez/AP

The Trump administration has flown 238 Venezuelans to an El Salvador prison that human rights groups say is designed to disappear people.

Despite a judge’s order temporarily blocking the move, the US government flew more than 200 men that it had accused of gang membership to the “Terrorism Confinement Center”, or Cecot – a draconian mega-prison that has become central to the promise of the Salvadorian president, Nayib Bukele, promise to rid his country of crime.

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