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CECOT
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Cecot
English
Proper noun
en Cecot.
en Stefano Pozzebon, Jessie Yeung, Marlon Sorto and Lex Harvey El Salvador offers to house violent US criminals and deportees of any nationality in unprecedented deal w:CNN https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/03/americas/el-salvador-migrant-deal-marco-rubio-intl-hnk/index.html 2025-02-03 El Salvador’s Terrorism Confinement Center, commonly referred to as CECOT, is the country’s largest and newest prison, with a maximum capacity of 40,000 inmates. https://web.archive.org/web/20260606010630/https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/03/americas/el-salvador-migrant-deal-marco-rubio-intl-hnk/index.html 6 June 2026
en KILMAR ARMANDO ABREGO GARCIA, et al. v. KRISTI NOEM, Secretary, United States Department of Homeland Security, et al. https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mdd.578815/gov.uscourts.mdd.578815.31.0.pdf 2025-04-06 5 w:United States District Court for the District of Maryland Once the planes arrived in El Salvador, the male detainees7 were stripped and shackled. Their heads were shaved, and they were marched into CECOT to join nearly 40,000 other prisoners held in some of the most inhumane and squalid conditions known in any carceral system. ECF No. 10-3. Since then, no one has heard from Abrego Garcia. ECF No. 1 ¶ 41. https://web.archive.org/web/20260723102348/https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mdd.578815/gov.uscourts.mdd.578815.31.0.pdf 23 July 2026
Spanish
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es Cecot
es Así es el CECOT, la megaprisión de El Salvador que construyó Nayib Bukele para encerrar a pandilleros w:CNN en Español https://cnnespanol.cnn.com/2025/03/17/latinoamerica/cecot-megaprision-carcel-el-salvador-bukele-orix 2025-03-17 El proyecto del CECOT fue presentado días después. El estado de excepción sería por 30 días, pero continúa hasta el día de hoy. The CECOT project was presented days later. The state of exception was supposed to last for 30 days, but it continues to this day. https://web.archive.org/web/20260125023920/https://cnnespanol.cnn.com/2025/03/17/latinoamerica/cecot-megaprision-carcel-el-salvador-bukele-orix 25 January 2026