El Salvador has more than 80,000 people under a state of emergency that has been in effect since March 2022. President Bukele has been heavily criticized for his focus on the war against gangs and the measures in his Territorial Control Plan, but the country is experiencing one of the safest periods in decades. Communities…
The Terrorism Confinement Center (CECOT) — a mega-prison that houses inmates of El Salvador’s three major gangs, Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13), Barrio 18 Revolucionarios and Barrio 18 Sureños– is the largest prison in the Western Hemisphere. Built in a record-breaking span of 6 months, this maximum security prison can house forty-thousand inmates, part of the war-on-gangs…