Mapping Latin America’s Megaprisons

Mapping Latin America’s Megaprisons

Mapping Latin America’s Megaprisons In the three years since President of El Salvador Nayib Bukele opened his famous Terrorism Confinement Center (Centro de Confinamiento de Terrorismo – CECOT), leaders around Latin America have attempted to follow in his footsteps in hopes of replicating El Salvador’s success in repressing gangs.  CECOT is one of the cornerstones of Bukele’s mano dura (iron fist) crackdown on organized crime in El Salvador. It …