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#el-salvador-prisons

Jason Thompson, a guard at HMP Isis, was suspended as the Metropolitan Police investigated his involvement in smuggling drugs and contraband into the prison. He was sentenced to four years and six months for conspiracy and misconduct.

The detainees detail a pattern of abuse, including beatings, humiliation, and sexual assault while they were incarcerated. One year later, these men are still waiting for justice.

"There was always artificial light, always," Armas said, during a rally outside the prison, which has become synonymous with torture. "That makes you feel really anxious and kind of paranoid."

China does not play by the rules; they do not respect the rules. They are not a democracy, but they intervene in your democracy. Six months later, already in the presidency, he celebrated an agreement with a sister nation: more than $500 million in non-reimbursable aid from Beijing for infrastructure projects that would boost his popularity.

According to the annual ranking by the Mexican organization Citizen Council for Public Security and Criminal Justice, which compiles a list of the 50 most dangerous cities in the world, six Ecuadorian cities will appear among the top 10 in 2025. Babahoyo appears on the list for the first time as the second most violent, with 166 homicides per 100,000 inhabitants.

Historic center renewal has become a recurring strategy in Central American cities seeking to reassert the symbolic, economic, and functional relevance of their traditional cores. These processes often combine physical rehabilitation, institutional investment, and stricter control over public space. San Salvador offers a recent and instructive case, which allows for understanding of how interventions in inherited civic spaces balance infrastructure improvement with heritage conservation and social regulation.

60 Minutes correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi said the Department of Homeland Security deflected all questions about abuses at the notorious El Salvadoran CECOT prison, even after having an extra month to respond after CBS News chief Bari Weiss originally spiked the story. Weiss pulled the story right before it was set to air on Dec. 21 because she said, we do not present the administration's argument for why it sent 252 Venezuelans to CECOT.