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Peru’s Keiko Fujimori becomes latest leader to visit notorious Salvadoran mega-prison housing gang members

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Peruvian President Keiko Fujimori visited the CECOT mega-prison in El Salvador as part of her efforts to address security challenges in Peru. During her visit, she met with Salvadoran officials who highlighted their country’s prison design and surveillance protocols aimed at isolating gang members. Fujimori praised these measures as a “successful model” while discussing technical exchanges on citizen and digital security between Peru and El Salvador. The CECOT, which opened in 2023 and can hold up to 40,000 inmates, has drawn international attention due to allegations of abuse and arbitrary arrests under the state of exception implemented since March 2022.

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Peruvian President Keiko Fujimori visited the Terrorism Confinement Center (CECOT) in El Salvador on Thursday, becoming the latest Latin American leader to tour this notorious prison. The visit comes as Peru faces its own internal security crisis due to rising homicide and extortion rates. Fujimori had previously expressed interest in building a similar mega-prison in Peru during her election campaign. During her visit, she was briefed by El Salvador's Ministers of Security and Justice and Defense, who detailed the prison’s design and surveillance protocols aimed at isolating gang members. The meeting also focused on deepening technical exchanges between both nations regarding citizen security, digital security, and state services modernization.

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Fujimori, who assumed the presidency in July, had expressed her interest during her election campaign in building a prison like the one in El Salvador, amid an internal security crisis in her country caused by rampant extortion and a rise in homicides. asserted

who → assume → homicides

Her visit to CECOT comes more than a week after Costa Rican President Laura Fernández toured the mega-prison as part of a trip to meet with Bukele. asserted

Fernández → come → Bukele

The Costa Rican leader recently inaugurated a maximum-security prison amid an increase in drug-related violence. asserted

leader → inaugurate → violence

Fujimori, who is scheduled to meet with Bukele later, was received by the Salvadoran Ministers of Security and Justice, Gustavo Villatoro, and of Defense, Francis Merino Monroy. asserted

who → schedule → Defense

They explained to the president and her delegation, in one of CECOT’s halls, the design of the infrastructure, surveillance protocols and mechanisms to isolate gang members. asserted

They → explain → members

The meeting addressed an agenda aimed at deepening technical exchange between the two nations, and discussions focused on the transfer of expertise in citizen security, digital security, and the modernization of state services, according to a statement from the Salvadoran Presidential Communications Secretariat. uncertain

discussions → address → Secretariat

Fujimori praised the security efforts undertaken by the Bukele administration, calling them a “successful model, a very useful model.” asserted

Fujimori → praise → them

“As is public knowledge, Peru also faced historical challenges in the 1980s and early 1990s, confronting two major terrorist groups,” she noted during the meeting with the Salvadoran officials. asserted

she → face → officials

More than 90,000 people have been imprisoned in El Salvador under a state of exception, an emergency measure that began in March 2022 and suspends certain constitutional rights to fight gangs. asserted

that → imprison → gangs

The measure has come under scrutiny by human rights organizations, which have documented thousands of cases of arbitrary arrests. asserted

which → come → arrests

The Central American country now has the highest incarceration rate per capita, with about 1.5% of its population behind bars. asserted

country → have → bars

The CECOT opened in 2023 and can hold up to 40,000 inmates. asserted

CECOT → open → inmates

It gained international attention in 2025 when more than 250 Venezuelans and some Salvadorans, including Kilmar Abrego Garcia, were sent there. asserted

Venezuelans → gain → Garcia

They were later released and allege they were beaten and tortured. asserted

they → release → ?

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