Peru’s Fujimori becomes latest Latin American leader to visit notorious Salvadoran prison CECOT
The visit highlights technical cooperation on security and prison design, as Peru weighs a similar maximum-security facility amid rising extortion and homicides.
- On Thursday and Friday, Peruvian President Keiko Fujimori visited El Salvador's Terrorism Confinement Center , meeting with Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele to discuss security strategies.
- Seeking to address rampant extortion and rising homicides, President Fujimori secured special law-making powers via Law 32743 for 90 calendar days to reform Peru's security.
- Inside the facility, Salvadoran Ministers of Security Gustavo Villatoro and Defense Francis Merino Monroy explained surveillance protocols and isolation mechanisms to the delegation. CECOT opened in 2023 with capacity for 40,000 inmates.
- Calling the system a "successful model, a very useful model," Fujimori signaled intent to adopt similar mechanisms for classifying criminal organizations as hostile groups in Peru.
- Human Rights Watch has documented arbitrary arrests and torture within El Salvador's system, which currently holds more than 90,000 people imprisoned under a state of exception.
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The Peruvian president is in El Salvador on an official visit that included a tour to get to know the Cecot megacarcel.
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Peru's Fujimori becomes latest Latin American leader to visit notorious Salvadoran prison CECOT
Peruvian President Keiko Fujimori visits El Salvador's Terrorism Confinement Center, a maximum-security prison built by President Nayib Bukele.
Tecoluca (El Salvador), Oct 29 (EFE).- The president of Peru, Keiko Fujimori, toured on Thursday a part of the facilities of the Center of Confinement of Terrorism (Cecot), symbol of the fight against the gangs of President Nayib Bukele, with which he plans to meet as part of an official visit to El Salvador. Unlike [...] The entry Keiko Fujimori travels the installations of the megacárcel Cecot in El Salvador was first published in HolaNews.
Peru's president, Keiko Fujimori, will arrive in El Salvador Wednesday to meet with President Nayib Bukele and learn about the security policies implemented to combat gangs and organized crime.
During her stay, the head of State will meet with the Salvadoran Minister of Justice and Public Security to learn about the “Zero leisure” program of social reintegration
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