The World_s Highest Security Prison_ CECOT (The most evil are kept here)
In this episode, we enter one of the world's most notorious prisons—El Salvador's Centro de Confinamiento del Terrorismo (CECOT). Located in Tecoluca and opened in 2023, this 57-acre mega-prison was built in just seven months following a massacre of 86 people attributed to gangs [citation:8][citation:5]. Now housing around 20,000 inmates—mostly members of the MS-13 and Barrio 18 gangs—CECOT has become a symbol of President Nayib Bukele's "war on gangs" and a controversial export model for other Latin American countries [citation:2][citation:8].
What makes CECOT truly terrifying is not just…
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