El Salvadors Bukele verschärft die politische Repression
Kritik am Regime von El Salvadors Präsidenten Bukele ist nicht erwünscht. Vor wenigen Tagen schockierte die Festnahme einer prominenten NGO-Anwältin. Denn sie hatte Anzeigen wegen Korruption in der Regierung erstattet. Von Anne Demmer.
The person that #Bukele has put in charge of the prison system in #ElSalvador is himself involved with gangs. And this is the guy who will have American deportees in custody.
https://www.wsj.com/world/americas/rump-el-salvador-prison-osiris-luna-59d6faf4?st=1v7Sqg
#Bukele el señor de los cuerpos torcidos.
https://elpais.com/videos/2025-05-23/bukele-el-senor-de-los-cuerpos-retorcidos.html
Quite a description of the third world dictatorship so much admired by extreme right wingers worldwide. #bukele #ElSalvador
https://www.mintpressnews.com/bukele-israel-dictatorship-surveillance/289578/
Another human rights defender has been captured in #elsalvador. The dictatorship of Nayib #Bukele follows the same pattern for political persecution: invent a judicial case through his appointed attorney general. 
https://www.elsalvador.com/noticias/nacional/detienen-ruth-lopez-cristosal-abogada/1219929/2025/
El dictador salvadoreño ha construido su imagen a base de una masiva máquina de propaganda que empuja las narrativas que el quiere. Pero desde hace unas semanas #Bukele parece estar perdiendo el control.
El mundo es muy grande y él muy pequeño.
https://beta.elfaro.net/opinion/bukele-pierde-el-control-de-las-narrativas-ckqq06us
Journalists Exposed Bukele’s Gang Ties. Then They Had to Flee El Salvador to Avoid Arrest
http://www.democracynow.org/2025/5/14/nayib_bukele_journalism_crackdown_el_faro
> We speak with a Salvadoran journalist who fled El Salvador along with others from the acclaimed news outlet El Faro after Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele threatened to arrest them for exposing how #Bukele had made secret deals with Salvadoran gangs.
All of this comes as Bukele is working closely with #Trump to jail immigrants sent from the United States.
Au Salvador, c’est la chasse aux narcos. Depuis l’arrivée au pouvoir de Nayib Bukele en 2019, le pays semble mieux se porter. La criminalité a chuté et le tourisme explose. Mais derrière cette vitrine, des milliers d’innocents sont arrêtés sans raison et enfermés sans procès, dans des conditions extrêmes. #salvador #bukele #usa #prison #artereportage Facebook :…
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Salvadoran Journalists Exposed Pres. #Bukele’s Ties to Gangs. Then They Had to Flee to Avoid Arrest
https://www.democracynow.org/2025/5/14/nayib_bukele_journalism_crackdown_el_faro
Journalists Exposed Bukele's Ties to Gangs. Then They Had to Flee El Salvador to Avoid Arrest
"The Trump administration’s deal to send large numbers of people to prisons in El Salvador has thrust its president, Nayib Bukele, into the international spotlight. Bukele has been praised, especially in conservative media, as a dynamic and popular leader who has saved his country from the grips of gang violence. But beneath this polished image, he has cemented his rule based on assigning himself autocratic powers, jailing and persecuting his political opponents, and overseeing the creation and expansion of the world’s first prison state. MintPress News explores the dark side of the man who calls himself “the world’s coolest dictator.”"
https://www.mintpressnews.com/nayib-bukele-worlds-coolest-dictator/289493/
"After six years, he is still wildly popular, with a national approval rating of over 80 percent. Much of the diaspora is devoted to him as well. While the idealized version of him — an efficient, eloquent leader who has reduced crime in the country and is committed to fighting corruption — sounds great, the reality is that he is a mercurial and unrestrained politician who controls every institution at the expense of the country’s democracy.
Now he has become President Trump’s jailer, welcoming deportees from the United States to be imprisoned in El Salvador’s brutal prison system. Venezuelan and American families, whose loved ones have been sent to these prisons, are now going through what many families here have gone through since Mr. Bukele came to power — feeling the terrifying arbitrariness of his regime, his self-interested way of ruling, his cruelty. Many are now realizing what some of us have warned people about for years: that even if Mr. Bukele has ironically called himself the “coolest dictator in the world,” he’s a dictator nonetheless.
The so-called Bukele model of national security is built on thousands of cases like that of Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, the Salvadoran immigrant who was improperly expelled to El Salvador in March. In 2022, Mr. Bukele declared a state of exception — still in effect — to weaken the country’s powerful gangs and lower the soaring crime and murder rate.
It has also eroded Salvadorans’ constitutional rights, and thousands of people with no criminal records have been arrested in a sweeping operation that eventually dismantled the gangs’ territorial control and drastically reduced homicides. Since the state of exception began, around 80,000 people have been arrested and imprisoned in El Salvador. Mr. Bukele admitted last year that 8,000 innocent people were arrested and released in the sweep, but civil society groups say the number is much higher."
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/04/opinion/el-salvador-bukele-prisons.html
#ElSalvador #Bukele #StateOfException #Dictatorship
By bankrolling El Salvador’s excesses and broadcasting the dramatic footage for domestic political gain, Washington is sending a signal that rights-free “security” can be not only tolerated but internationally legitimized. https://www.texasobserver.org/trump-texas-offshoring-justice-el-salvador/
The #Chicago-born cardinal’s most recent retweet questioned whether #Trump & his admin “see the suffering” caused by their policies.
“As #Trump & #Bukele use Oval to [emoji denoting “laugh”] Feds’ illicit deportation of a US resident, once an undoc-ed Salvadoran himself, no-DC Aux+Evelio [DC Auxiliary Bishop Evelio Menjivar-Ayala] asks, “Do you not see the suffering? Is your conscious not disturbed? How can you stay quiet?” the post read.
Part of the deal was a tacit 'no body, no crime' policy under which gang leaders agreed to hide their victims' corpses as Bukele boasted of a historic reduction in homicides in a country once known as the world's murder capital."
#bukele #elsalvador #NayibBukele
#Bukele is preparing arrest warrants for the #ElFaro journalists who recently reported on his secret deals with #ElSalvador's gangs.
El Faro fled the country a few years ago (currently headquartered in Costa Rica) so I'm not sure who, if anyone, might be arrested... but still, scary stuff. There's no better source for info on the Bukele's authoritarianism than their journalists.
El Salvador's President Bukele is reportedly preparing to arrest the journalists who have reported on the secret deals Bukele struck with Salvadoran gangs that have enabled his consolidation of power.
