Tecoluca, El Salvador CNN —Sunlight pours into the cavernous building.
Opened less than two years ago, it is already an iconic feature of the “new El Salvador” of President Nayib Bukele.
The cells are meticulously clean — an intentional and stark contrast to the dingy and squalid prisons of El Salvador’s past.
He even created his own clique, “Crazy Criminals,” now tattooed across his back, after he returned to El Salvador.
Critics inside and outside El Salvador question the veracity of the government’s crime data and claimed success over the gangs.
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