Nayib Bukelepresident of El Salvador, has announced the transfer of 2,000 gang members to the maximum security prison that has arisen in the country. As if it were a movie, Bukele has announced the transfer of these people with images of all of them arriving at night, half-naked and waiting piled up in the hallway to be transferred to his cell.

What awaits them at Cecot, a pharaonic construction that is equivalent to seven football fields, is a life of confinement. With capacity for 40,000 people, the lights are on 24 hours a day, they sleep on metal, without a mattress or sheet. They cannot receive visits or speak with their lawyers and only leave the cell 30 minutes a day to exercise in the hallway.

It is the third transfer in a year and a half. Bukele assures that there they will pay for the crimes committed against the Salvadoran people. The first of these transfers was in February 2023 and the second, a month later. For the president, this center is the symbol of the war against gangs, something that helped him be re-elected in the last elections.

However, the prison has also been the subject of strong criticism for the violation of Human Rights, with more than 6,000 complaints for arbitrary arrests, torture and disappearances. More than 150 prisoners are believed to have lost their lives in police custody.