Poor bear the brunt as thousands jailed in gang crackdown
Jun 24, 2022
3 minutes
By Tom Phillips SALCOATITÁN
Only a few weeks ago, Sandra García was looking forward to the brighter future Nayib Bukele had promised 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.
Those dreams imploded when the man she planned to marry, Juan José Ibáñez García, was seized during one of
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