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San Salvador, Feb 24 (EFE).- Salvadoran authorities moved 2,000 accused gang members to a recently completed maximum-security prison, President Nayib Bukele said Friday. “Today before dawn, in a single operation, we transferred the first 2,000 gang members to the Center for Terrorism Confinement (CECOT),” he wrote on Twitter. “This will be their new house, where …
Conditions inside a huge new mega-prison designed to house 40,000 alleged gang members in El Salvador will be particularly severe, according to accounts from a visiting team of AFP journalists.