‘It’s a war on the people’: El Salvador’s mass arrests send thousands into despair

The Guardian

By Tom Phillips

Wed 8 Jun 2022 18.17

Only a few weeks ago, Sandra García was looking forward to the brighter future Nayib Bukele promised El Salvador’s opportunity-starved youth when he swept to power three years ago.

“I gave him my vote believing we’d have a better life,” said the 23-year-old, one of hundreds of thousands of young Salvadorans who chose the authoritarian-minded millennial as their president.

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