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El Salvador
America’s Disappeared
Barack Obama wanted to create an administration that looked like America. Donald Trump wants to create an America that looks like his administration.
Is American Carnage About to Spread to Venezuela?
Trump needs an enemy to justify his power grabs, and Venezuela fits the bill.
Bitcoin Diplomacy
Pakistan and El Salvador are teaming up to use cryptocurrency to circumvent the usual multilateral controls on financial transactions.
How Democracies Fade and Why America Should Pay Attention
Nayib Bukele is using populism to bury democracy in El Salvador. He’s not the only leader to do so.
Torture Redux
The Trump administration revives institutionalized torture.
Bukele: Does the Strongman Show Weakness When Imprisoning Critics?
The Salvadoran leader tolerates no dissent.
Bukele’s Black Box
Thanks to outside pressure, Kilmar Abrego García got a rare chance to talk with the outside world. But thousands of Salvadoran prisoners remain cut off.
Trump and Bukele: The Few Repressing the Many
The two authoritarian leaders are joining hands to assault human rights and democratic norms.
Anti-Immigrant Legislation Doesn’t Serve Anyone But Prison Contractors
The Laken Riley Act is an assault on due process, undermining all of our rights to make for-profit prison CEOs richer.