Mega prison
El Salvador wants to lock up criminals from all over the world – for money
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El Salvador rigorously acts against gang crime and accommodates their members in a mega prison. Now the United States should also benefit from this – against payment.
El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele has an idiosyncratic business idea that is supposed to rinse more money into the coffers to his small country. The head of government of the Central American country has agreed to accept US departure in any nationality and American violent criminals in a mega prison. Bukele promised to accept and detain criminal illegal immigrants from all countries, said the spokeswoman for the U.S. State Department, Tammy Bruce, said after a meeting of Minister Marco Rubio with the president.
“And in an extraordinary gesture that has never been granted by a country before, President Bukele offered to accommodate dangerous American criminals in his prisons, including US citizens and people with a legal stay.”
El Salvador sees a welcome source of money in the range of the USA
“We offered the United States the opportunity to outsource part of their prison system,” said Bukele about the platform X. El Salvador is ready to include only convicted criminals-including convicted US citizens-for a fee to her mega prison “Cecot” (Centro de Confinamiento del Terrorismo). “The fee would be relatively low for the USA, but significant for us, so that our entire prison system would be sustainable,” said Bukele.
In El Salvador, a new large prison complex was opened in the fight against violent gangs two years ago. Up to 40,000 prisoners should be locked up there. Pictures of captivated prisoners in white shorts, the barefoot and with tattooed upper bodies entered the prison in the race, went around the world at the time. The murder rate then decreased significantly in the Central American country. However, human rights activists also speak of arbitrary arrests.
Space for 40,000 inmates: This is El Salvador’s new mega jail
165 hectares in size – space for 40,000 prisoners
In the fight against gang crime, El Salvador opens heavy guns. Gang members are to be housed in a huge prison complex in Tecoluca southeast of the capital San Salvador. The institution extends over 165 hectares and offers space for 40,000 inmates.
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The topic of migration plays a central role on Rubios trip to Central America. At the weekend he already visited Panama. After visiting El Salvador, he continues to Costa Rica, Guatemala and the Dominican Republic. There, too, the topic of migration will play a central role in view of the mass deportations announced by US President Donald Trump.
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