As President Nayib Bukele arrests tens of thousands over gang fears, activists and family members grapple with the fallout
in the last three months – a stunning security blitz with few parallels in Latin America’s recent history.
“That is something we used to see in the military dictatorships in South America … but it is not common today and it is really not common in a country where you have a president who was democratically elected,” Taraciuk said. “It shows the extreme to which they have gone.” “It’s almost like a sect,” Picardo said of Bukele’s political movement, which many Salvadorans also credit with slashing the murder rate and offering generous handouts to the poor during the Covid pandemic.
Outside the prisons into which thousands of mostly young, impoverished men are vanishing, their panicked relatives beg to differ.Óscar Picardo Since then, Lemus has slept under a seagrape tree outside its gates while she waits for news. “We’re all human beings. There’s no reason to treat us like this,” she sobbed, voicing disenchantment at Bukele’s actions.Another woman grew angry as she described how her brother, a street hawker from the city of Santa Ana, had been seized.
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