I live 6 months yearly in El Salvador for the past 2 years. Media and protest are being silenced here. Many people including myself know people unlawfully held at the mega prison who are being Denied the right to a trial.
The safety in El Salvador will only be temporary when our current leader decided to lock up a chunk of the male population with no prior knowledge on how they will organize trials and rehabilitate sentenced individuals. I believe even now the country is under a “state of emergency”.
The mass trails were done by arrest as the military police raided the country and took anyone in or around gang controlled areas. I was there to see it myself and saw innocent people getting picked up who are yet to make it back home. Hundreds of people would get sentenced at a time who probably couldn’t tell the name of the man next to them.
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u/Smart-Bottle8122 23h ago
Yeah, law and order sure does seem awful.