The mirage of security: the dangerous Bukele model
The “Bukele model” has managed to politically seduce large majorities in Latin America to the point of making them prefer extreme authoritarianism in exchange for supposed public safety.
El espejismo de la seguridad: el peligroso modelo Bukele
El «modelo Bukele» ha logrado seducir políticamente a grandes mayorías en América Latina, hasta el punto de hacerles preferir un autoritarismo extremo a cambio de una supuesta seguridad pública.
Bukele escalates crackdown on independent media after documentary exposes his alleged gang deals
The government’s latest offensive came after the release of a documentary co-produced by PBS that allegedly exposes the deals Bukele is said to have struck with El Salvador’s most powerful gangs.
The architecture of exclusion: The global offensive against the right to migrate
While the economies of various nations are sustained on the labor of migrants, the “ICE-ization” of immigration policy around the world criminalizes their very existence.
Why is El Salvador now allowing indefinite presidential re-election?
The Salvadoran legislature also extended presidential term limits. Despite Bukele’s support, several voices from the opposition denounce an anti-democratic drift in the country.
Venezuelan migrants in Bukele’s CECOT were subjected to torture and abuse, prosecutor denounces
Venezuela’s Attorney General announced in a press conference that Venezuelan migrants held in El Salvador underwent torture and abuse while imprisoned in CECOT
Maduro gov’t negotiates return of 252 Venezuelans detained by US in El Salvador
Following a months-long campaign demanding their release, the Venezuelan men arrived Friday in Venezuela from El Salvador.
“Fire up the deportation planes”: Trump admin celebrates Supreme Court ruling enabling Trump to deport migrants to countries not their own
Immigrant rights organizer says Trump administration is wielding yet “another attack on human rights”
Wrongfully deported Kilmar Abrego Garcia returned to the US to face Trump admin indictment
Trump’s Department of Justice accuses Abrego Garcia “of conspiracy to unlawfully transport illegal aliens for financial gain” and “unlawful transportation of illegal aliens for financial gain”
One more year of Bukele: tough on crime, struggling with poverty
June 1 marked the first year of the second term of Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele, who won the 2024 presidential elections with almost 85% of the votes.
They took her baby: The struggle of a nation and a mother to reunite a family after US deportation
The Venezuelan government, working with the family and social organizations, achieved the repatriation of 2-year-old Maikelys after consistent pressure on US authorities to reunite the mother with her daughter.
Bukele proposes exchange of detainees to Venezuela as criticism mounts over detention of deported migrants
The Venezuelan Attorney General’s Office requested information on the detainees. Social organizations accuse Bukele of imprisoning Salvadoran politicians despite his rhetoric against Venezuela.
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