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Brutal Gangs, Frail Government Await U.N.-Backed Haiti Mission
6Oct By adminNo Comments
World

Brutal Gangs, Frail Government Await U.N.-Backed Haiti Mission

The Kenya-led police force, funded by the U.S., aims to win back control of Haiti from gangs that are stoking a humanitarian crisisU.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, left, and Kenyan Cabinet Secretary for Defense Aden Duale, center, in Nairobi last month. The U.S. has committed $200 million to the Kenya-led mission. Khalil Senosi/Associated Press
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“La Isla” Shows the Absences Left by El Salvador’s Mass Arrests
27Sep By adminNo Comments
Entertainment

“La Isla” Shows the Absences Left by El Salvador’s Mass Arrests

When the government of El Salvador declared a “state of exception” in March of last year, after a sudden spike in gang killings, it was supposed to be temporary. Soldiers and police officers could arrest anyone they considered suspicious. No one was entitled to a legal defense. Each month, the country’s Assembly would have to vote to extend this state of affairs. But the party in power, called Nuevas Ideas, held a super-majority. Their fealty to the President, Nayib Bukele, was total, as was his commitment to an indefinite campaign of law and order based on mass arrests.The state of exception has now been renewed eighteen times. As one journalist put it to me, el régimen de excepción has become la normalidad excepcional, the exceptional norm. In the past year and a half, the government ha...
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