Nayib Bukele has shown how brutal control can be sustained not just through force, but by raising the cost of speaking out<\/p>\n
The Terrorism Confinement Center <\/strong>(Cecot) maximum security prison in El Salvador is the crown jewel of President Nayib Bukele\u2019s efforts to quash not only criminal gangs, but also criticism and political opposition to his government. The \u201cmega-prison\u201d<\/a> is also one of the more visible destinations<\/a> in the emerging map of American deportations \u2013 a sprawling archipelago that includes conservative US districts, the Guant\u00e1namo military base and Central American waypoints connected by a tangle of military and charter flights.<\/p>\n That the two states have connected their penal architecture is no coincidence. Donald Trump\u2019s aggressive policies towards foreigners build on Bukele\u2019s infamous iron fist crackdown against criminal gangs: it\u2019s a political toolkit<\/a> that leverages anti-establishment anger to justify an authoritarian slide. In deploying strongman tactics<\/a> to address social concerns, both leaders also cultivate a chilling culture of fear.<\/p>\n Jordana Timerman is a journalist based in Buenos Aires. She edits the Latin America Daily Briefing<\/p>\n Continue reading…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Nayib Bukele has shown how brutal control can be sustained not just through force, but by raising the cost of speaking out The Terrorism Confinement Center (Cecot) maximum security prison in El Salvador is the crown jewel of President Nayib Bukele\u2019s efforts to quash not only criminal gangs, but also criticism and political opposition to … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39215\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}