Last week, El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele posted shocking footage from the country's new giant prison. It is the largest prison in the Americas, with capacity for 40,000 inmates. | Analysis by Stefano Pozzebon
Last week, El Salvador’s president Nayib Bukele posted a typically divisive video on Twitter. To the sound of thrilling fast-paced music, it showed hundreds of detainees being transferred to a new “megaprison” officially named the Center for Confining Terrorism. Constructed last year to host the Central American country’s burgeoning prison population, it is the largest prison in the Americas, with capacity for 40,000 inmates.
Salvadorean authorities did not answer CNN’s request for comment in relation to this article. El Salvador’s endless state of emergency Bukele has cultivated a “tough-on-crime” image, imposing harsh policies on the rest of the population. In March last year, he suspended constitutional rights in the country, empowering Salvadoran security forces to jail citizens simply on suspicion of being part of a gang. Incarceration figures have consequently soared.
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