The Terrorism Confinement Center (Cecot) is the maximum security prison in El Salvador. Nayib Bukele's eyes shine when he talks about this place.

In just twenty months, the young president has struck down the two main gangs. With an emergency regime that has taken the Army to the streets and suspended constitutional freedoms, he has arrested more than 70,000 people. He has locked up young people in entire neighborhoods, which before were impossible to enter without risking their lives.