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Aerial view of the Centro de Confinamiento del Terrorismo (Cecot), El Salvador's maximum-security prison and the declared model for the Honduran project, in January 2023.

Honduras approves life imprisonment for gang leaders and plans a 1,300-inmate megaprison

An aerial view of the Centro de Confinamiento del Terrorismo (Cecot) in Tecoluca, El Salvador, in an image released by the Salvadoran presidency in 2023.

Regional security

Costa Rica and El Salvador agree to cooperate against transnational crime after Fernández tours the Cecot

Costa Rican President Laura Fernández Delgado at the presidential handover ceremony, on 8 May 2026.

Costa Rica opens its largest prison on Wednesday: 5,100 places, with Bukele's Cecot as the model

The United Nations Security Council chamber at the organisation's New York headquarters, in a 2006 photograph.

UN extends Haiti's anti-gang force for six months, with fewer than a third of its authorised troops on the ground

Ecuadorian President Daniel Noboa at the Government Palace in Quito in April 2025.

Ecuador's Noboa declares new state of emergency in eight provinces and the year's third curfew