CECOT, or the Terrorism Confinement Center, opened in 2023, with a capacity of 40,000 inmates. Its emergence has raised alarms about human rights abuses under President Bukele, who has been accused of utilizing the facility as a tool for political repression similar to concentration camps. Helpful parallels are drawn between CECOT and historical concentration camps, not solely for extermination but for the intimidation of political dissidents. This prison reflects a broader strategy of government control through mass detention without due process, invoking concerns regarding civil liberties and human rights violations in El Salvador.
CEcot is designed not just as a prison but functions effectively as a concentration camp, a significant shift in El Salvador's approach to political detention.
The defining characteristic of any concentration camp is the mass detention of civilians without due process, often based on affiliation or identity rather than actual crimes.
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