The Terrorism Confinement Center (Spanish: Centro de Confinamiento del Terrorismo, abbreviated and commonly referred to as CECOT) is a maximum security prison located in Tecoluca, El Salvador. The prison was built in late 2022 amidst a large-scale gang crackdown in El Salvador and was opened by the Salvadoran government in January 2023.

6 days ago · What is the CECOT? Bukele ordered the mega-prison built as he began his campaign against El Salvador’s gangs in March 2022. It opened a year later in the town of Tecoluca, about 45 miles east of the capital.

5 days ago · Inside El Salvador’s mega-prison. El Salvador’s mega-prison that can reportedly hold up to 40,000 inmates was built after President Bukele’s order as he cracked down on gang violence in 2022. CECOT opened a year later in the town …

5 days ago · Even before the campaign against gangs, El Salvador’s prisons were notoriously violent and overcrowded but the crown jewel of Bukele’s fight is the Terrorism Confinement Center, or CECOT, he ...

6 days ago · Inmates in a cell at the Terrorism Confinement Center, a prison complex in Tecoluca, El Salvador, that has become a symbol of President Nayib Bukele’s administration. ... known as CECOT, a ...

Nov 6, 2024 · After leaving the sterile and muted interior of Cecot, we join a force of approximately 2,500 police and soldiers patrolling a neighborhood in San Salvador flagged for potential remnants of gang...

Nov 14, 2024 · CNN’s David Culver and his team were the first major US news organization to capture the inside of Cecot — El Salvador’s Terrorism Confinement Center.