Hondurans Reportedly Sent to El Salvador's Mega-Prison CECOT

Published on Honduras Daily · Sep 2, 2026 · Originally reported August 31, 2026 by Once Noticias

Human-rights advocates report that Honduran migrants deported from the US are being transferred to El Salvador under a 'Safe Third Country' agreement and locked up in CECOT, a maximum-security prison, rather than processed as migrants.

An auto-translated English version isn’t available for Once Noticias, so this opens the original in Spanish. Honduras Daily curates and summarizes; the reporting is theirs.

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