CNN’s David Culver reports from outside El Salvador’s Center for Terrorism Confinement, better known as Cecot, after touring the mega-prison. This is where more than 250 migrants deported from the US are being held. David Culver’s full reporting from El Salvador’s Cecot mega-prison is only on CNN.
CNN’s David Culver reports from outside El Salvador’s Center for Terrorism Confinement, better known as Cecot, after touring the mega-prison. This is where more than 250 migrants deported from the US are being held. David Culver’s full reporting from El Salvador’s Cecot mega-prison is only on CNN.
Some 278 men have been deported by the Trump administration to El Salvador, accused of being members of the Venezuelan Tren de Aragua gang or Salvadorans who are said to be part of MS-13. CNN’s David Culver toured a sector of Cecot mega prison, which neighbors where these deportees are being held in conditions similar, CNN was told, to convicted gangsters. Culver’s full reporting from El Salvador’s mega-prison is only on CNN.
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. The facility houses some of El Salvador’s most hardened criminals. Opened less than two years ago, it is already an iconic feature of the “new El Salvador” of President Nayib Bukele. Critics argue the facility has crossed the line into human rights abuses for its strict control and isolation of prisoners.
The Supreme Court temporarily paused a court-imposed midnight deadline to return Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, a Maryland man who was mistakenly deported by the Trump administration to El Salvador. The decision to temporarily pause the case, which is relatively common when the court is facing a quick deadline, means that Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran national, will remain at the notorious CECOT prison for now.
