http://dx.doi.org/10.59704/ed5493302b6b6ed9 https://verfassungsblog.de/cecot-salvador/ Security Sells - El Salvador’s Mega Prison as an Export Model Graute, Lukas eng 2026-05-04 electronic resource text/html ddc:342 El Salvador El Salvador Gefängnis Human Rights Latin America Prisoner's rights security El Salvador Gefängnis Verfassungsblog Verfassungsblog--2366-7044 CC BY-SA 4.0 Latin America’s right-wing politicians are now particularly keen to visit the 23-hectare maximum-security prison in El Salvador, the brainchild of authoritarian president Nayib Bukele. Many politicians in the region see it as a silver bullet against gang violence. What they miss is that the model cannot be separated from its authoritarian foundations. The Salvadoran “success” rests on emergency rule, suspended fundamental rights, and a Constitutional Court pushed aside.