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The first video from inside El Salvador's notorious CECOT prison shows newly deported Tren de Aragua-accused migrants hollering from their cells. The scene unfolded as US representatives toured the facility with the country's president, Nayib Bukele. Video shows the caged men shouting and screaming as Reps Andy Ogles, Vicente Gonzalez, Anna Paulina Luna as well as former congressman Matt Gaetz made their way through. 'I saw evil today. I will never forget it,' Luna said of her visit. 'I heard a story of a MS-13 admitting to watching an infant being murdered. 'I watched and listened to another member of...

Andry Hernandez Romero, a gay makeup artist who came to the United States last year in search of asylum, is one of 238 Venezuelan migrants who were flown from the U.S. to a maximum security prison in El Salvador three weeks ago. President Trump, who campaigned on eradicating the Venezuelan gang known as Tren de Aragua, brokered a deal with El Salvador's president that allows the U.S. to send deportees to the Terrorism Confinement Center, or CECOT. The Trump administration used the Alien Enemies Act, a law not invoked since World War II, to send many of the Venezuelans there,...

Welcome to CECOT, the strictest and most secure prison in the world. The most dangerous gang members live here, both the MS13 "Mara Salvatrucha" and Barrio 18. They serve sentences ranging from 200 to 1,000 years; anyone who enters here will never get out. In 2015, El Salvador was the most dangerous country in the world. Today, thanks to CECOT, the Salvadoran people live in peace. We spent an entire night in Nayib Bukele's prison, where we saw how they shower and train, tasted their controversial food, and interviewed one of the inmates. VIDEO IS 50 MINUTES LONG

Sunk deep into shaven and elaborately tattooed skulls, a hundred pairs of eyes – hollow and dark –are boring directly into mine. The men they belong to have committed crimes evil almost beyond comprehension. Members of two of the most savage rival gangs the world has seen, El Salvador’s Ms-13 and Barrio 18, they raped and tortured, murdered and mutilated, cut bodies to pieces and strewed them around the streets to strike terror in the neighbourhoods they controlled. On my journey to the world-renowned prison that holds them, the Latin American country’s new Terrorism Confinement Centre (CECOT), my government escorts...

Left-wing actress Mia Farrow jumped to her social media Monday to spread conspiracy theories about the Trump administration’s deportations of violent Tren de Aragua gang bangers to El Salvador. The Rosemary’s Baby star jumped to her account on the left-wing echo chamber BlueSky app in reply to a post made by Vice President JD Vance, who wrote “There were violent criminals and rapists in our country. Democrats fought to keep them here. President Trump deported them.”

VIDEOIsn't Mr. Rogers so nice? He is welcoming the Tren De Aragua to their new PERMANENT neighborhood. A mean nasty judge tried to stop them from moving into the neighborhood. Awwww! That's not nice. Fortunately they were able to make the trip and Mr. Rogers was able to welcome a couple of hundred new neighbors to the neighborhood.

This is the moment alleged members of the Venezuelan criminal organisation Tren de Aragua were hauled into El Salvador's notorious Terrorism Confinement Centre. The United States sent over 200 alleged members of the Venezuelan gang to be imprisoned, President Nayib Bukele said. 'Today, the first 238 members of the Venezuelan criminal organisation, Tren de Aragua, arrived in our country, he said on X. He shared a video of several men in handcuffs and shackles being transferred from a plane to a heavily guarded convoy. The gang has been linked to kidnapping, extortion, organised crime and contract killings. Bukele, in a...

The United States will pay a very low fee for them, but a high one for us. Over time, these actions, combined with the production already being generated by more than 40,000 inmates engaged in various workshops and labor under the Zero Idleness program, will help make our prison system self-sustainable. As of today, it costs $200 million per year. On this occasion, the U.S. has also sent us 23 MS-13 members wanted by Salvadoran justice, including two ringleaders. One of them is a member of the criminal organization’s highest structure. This will help us finalize intelligence gathering and go...

Welcome to CECOT, the world’s largest prison by capacity in El Salvador which was constructed to imprison the worst of the worst. Those who enter this prison are destined to never leave here. This is the world’s strictest and largest mega prison. It has a capacity of 40,000. Built in 2022, this massive prison is made up of eight separate modules spread over 410 acres of land. Each pair of modules is enclosed by two separate 3-meter-high walls with razor wire. The entire facility is surrounded by a towering 9-meter-high wall with a 3-meter-high electric fence carrying 15,000 volts. Nineteen...

Dramatic footage has emerged from inside El Salvador's mega-prison for gang members showing its concrete confinement cell and impenetrable security. The Centre for the Confinement of Terrorism (CECOT) in Tecoluca is home to 40,000 of the world's most dangerous men who will never be released - each one with at least one homicide conviction. And now YouTuber Nick Shirley has offered one of the most in-depth looks at the prison's interior yet. He also takes a tour of the solitary confinement chamber, a narrow cell comprising only a raised concrete platform used as a bed alongside a rudimentary toilet basin....