The Roots of Bukeles Gulag
News Source : The New York Review of Books
News Summary
- Nayib Bukele's flagship ‘megaprison’ opened in January 2023 in a desolate stretch of Tecoluca, about forty-five miles from San Salvador
- In a country of six million, about one in every fifty people is imprisoned; less than a quarter have received a sentence
- Human Rights Watch stressed that people detained in CECOT are held almost entirely incommunicado
The Terrorism Confinement Center was designed to be a black hole. When Nayib Bukeles flagship megaprisonknown as CECOT, after its Spanish acronymopened in January 2023 in a desolate stretch of T [+25000 chars]
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