In a very accelerated tour to CECOT, I could cover the morning routines, creating the visual puzzle, grabbing the story by fragments, analyzing, deconstructing and reassembling everything in an almost 6 hour almost surreal conversation with CECOT's director, Belarmino García. - ThreadSky

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victorhugofj.bsky.social • 10 days ago

In a very accelerated tour to CECOT, I could cover the morning routines, creating the visual puzzle, grabbing the story by fragments, analyzing, deconstructing and reassembling everything in an almost 6 hour almost surreal conversation with CECOT's director, Belarmino García.

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victorhugofj.bsky.social•10 days ago

In a way, I understand how this hyper-structure somehow compensates for the nonsense violence of the gangs, but this is not the end of the story.

victorhugofj.bsky.social•10 days ago

Three days earlier, I met with a lifelong brother and fixer, Edwin Cerritos, who took me to a street in the Mejicanos area where members of Barrio 18 doused a microbus with gasoline, set it ablaze with passengers inside, and gunned down those who tried to escape with automatic weapons.

victorhugofj.bsky.social•10 days ago

This event, known as the Route 47 Massacre, occurred during the administration of leftist President Mauricio Funes and marked a turning point when Barrio 18 was designated as a terrorist organization.

victorhugofj.bsky.social•10 days ago

Thanks to a local journalist, I was able to meet with Ms. Marcela Alvarado Noria, a farmer and mother of Duval Mata Alvarado, who is currently detained at CECOT.

victorhugofj.bsky.social•10 days ago

Despite receiving two release orders from judges, his case remains suspended in legal limbo, as correctional officers appear to wield more authority than judicial decisions.

victorhugofj.bsky.social•10 days ago

As Orlando Ruiz said in a private conversation, what I filmed will never do justice to what I saw with my own eyes, what I sensed in the surroundings, or what I smelled in that place.

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