21 Oct 2026, 04:50 PM
‘I never saw my son, until they handed him over in a bag’: inside El Salvador’s brutal crime crackdown
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President Nayib Bukele’s campaign of mass arrest has been marked by allegations of torture and killing. Four years on, 120,000 people are still in prisonAt midnight on a Monday in December 2021, dozens of soldiers and police officers stormed into the home of Sandra Carolina Velasco Mena. They were looking for her 22-year-old son, Jefferson Alexánder Hernández Velasco.“They wanted to arrest young people,” Sandra says. “Two of the policemen said it was because they were short of three people in their quota.” Continue reading...
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