Lucas Menget, a French journalist and filmmaker, called it a “tropical gulag.” He visited CECOT in order to make a TV documentary for ARTE, a European public service channel, the week before ...

They were designated “Enemies of the People”, rounded up, and either killed or sent to various locations across the GULAG, a ...

Many were shot, but a much greater number were sent to the labour camps, the notorious Gulag complex scattered ... they then spatially matched the locations of camps with current economic activity ...