The president of El Salvador, Nayib Bukele, plans to double the size of the Terrorism Confine The Wall Street Journal.
The plan was revealed by the Salvadoran president to the US Secretary of National Security. UU., Kristi Noem, during his visit last month to inspect the prison, according to sources cited by the newspaper.
The Cecot, known for the complaints of human rights abuse, charged notoriety again last March, when he received more than 200 immigrants – mostly Venezuelans – sent by the Government of Donald Trump as part of his crusade against criminal foreigners.
Inaugurated in 2023, the prison has been promoted by the Salvadoran government as the “largest” in Latin America.
Last Monday, the American president personally thanked the collaboration of his Salvadoran counterpart for keeping immigrants arrested.
In addition, Trump paid the land so that Bukele launched the expansion initiative, reiterating his intention to send to prison in El Salvador to US citizens who commit violent crimes.
“I don’t know what the laws are, but we also have local criminals and I would like to include them in the group of people we take from this country,” the president told Bikele during a meeting at the White House.
Trump insisted again in this idea and was captured by microphones by telling the Central American president that the “local” – expression used to refer to alleged terrorists born in the US.
Bukele has presumed the high security of his jail, which keeps immigrants detained, although it has not been proven that they have pending crimes, as is the case of Salvadoran Kilmar Abrego García, sent by an administrative error to that jail.
This case, which unleashed a legal battle that has already reached the US Supreme Court., Motivated the American senator Chris van Hollen (Democrat) to travel on Wednesday to El Salvador to demand the release of Ábrego García.