🇸🇻Some thoughts on my assignment to El Salvador with @DailyCaller. Follow for more updates as we work to finish the documentary!!

🧵7/7 The interview, tour and much more will be released with the @DailyCaller early next year. So follow for more updates.

🧵6/7 The prisoner said the eerie silence that filled the room, packed with hundreds of some of the world’s most dangerous men, was normal. With little talking and no access to books or possessions, I asked if he spent his days lost in thought. His answer surprised me. He said

🧵5/7 CECOT prisoners spend more than 22 hours a day locked in their cells. They’re only let out in small groups for supervised exercise, a mandatory non-denominational Christian message, and medical appointments.

🧵4/7 The director instructed gang members in one cell to remove their shirts, revealing tattoos marking their ties to MS-13 and Barrio 18. He said the prison was built in just seven months and that since its completion in 2023, no one has attempted to escape.

🧵3/7 I was introduced to an MS-13 member serving a 1,166-year sentence. At the director’s instruction, he lifted his shirt to reveal his tattoos: devil horns inked on his head and MS-13 markings across his chest and back. As some of the other prisoners tried to hold up their

🧵2/7 I asked what it was like sharing a cell with gang members whose friends he’d murdered. He said it isn’t a problem—there’s no reason to fight anymore. All possessions have been stripped away, and as he put it, they used to kill each other because the other gang would kill

🧵1/7 My day in CECOT I sat down with an MS-13 member at CECOT on Thursday. He told me he’s murdered 30+ people, including while as an illegal alien in the U.S. When asked about claims from civil rights groups that prisoners are mistreated, he denied it, saying he isn’t

Spent the day at CECOT, El Salvador’s highest-security prison; home to some of the world’s most violent criminals, including thousands of MS-13 members. I spoke with one inmate who admitted to murdering dozens of people, including while living illegally in the U.S. More to come

🧵3/3 Yesterday we visited a neighborhood once ravaged by gangs. Locals said they used to fear crossing into other areas—gangs would kill anyone who did. Families suffered, businesses collapsed, and progress came to a halt. Residents told us the government has since cleared the

🧵2/3 Villatoro also outlined the Bukele administration’s Territorial Action Plan, which deploys joint police and military forces to clear gang members neighborhood by neighborhood. He said the plan remains in effect and demonstrated updated crime data from every region, along

🧵1/3 Gustavo Villatoro, head of El Salvador’s National Police, dismissed claims that people were arrested simply for having tattoos. He presented a catalog detailing the various gang tattoos and symbols used to identify cliques and members, along with graffiti signatures and

Out in San Salvador’s historic district Monday night—families were still playing in the plaza when I left around 9:30. Every local we spoke with said they wouldn’t have believed this would ever be possible just a few years ago, when MS-13 and other gangs made even daytime outings

🧵3/3 We also traveled to Surf City to see how tourism has surged alongside Bukele’s security measures. Families with young children filled the beaches—many told us that just a few years ago, they’d never have felt safe enough to visit El Salvador at all. The administration has

🧵2/3 Fulloa and Bukele have used a process known as the regime de excepción, which—if approved by the legislature—temporarily suspends portions of the Constitution, including the right to individual hearings. The 30-day emergency measure has now been extended 43 times and has

🧵1/3 El Salvadorian Vice President @fulloa51 told me he and Bukele had to overcome entrenched corruption just to get on the ballot in 2019—then won a majority of the vote as third-party candidates. Since then, their administration has hit gangs like MS-13 harder than anyone

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I’ve only been in El Salvador a few hours and already ran into President @nayibbukele celebrating All Souls’ Day with locals. I’m here filming a @DailyCaller documentary on the country’s new tourism push, MS-13 prisons, and interviews with top officials, including VP @fulloa51.