Trump has found in El Salvador a model for the repressive state he wants to build – and he’s just getting started | Jordana Timerman

R.It is the center of imprisonment of terrorism (CECOT) The maximum security prison in El Salvador is the jewel of the crown of President Nayeb Bokil to crush not only criminal gangs, but also criticism and political opposition to his government. “Mega Pearson” It is also one of More clear destinations On the emerging map of the American deportation – a sprawling archipelago that includes the conservative American regions, the Guantanamo military base and road points in Central America linked to the intertwining of military flights and minority.

The two countries have linked their sanctions structure not a coincidence. Donald Trump’s aggressive policies towards foreigners rely on the necklet fist campaign from an agent against criminal gangs: it is a A group of political tools This enhances the anger of the institution to justify an authoritarian segment. In publication Strong man’s tactics To address social concerns, both leaders also cultivate a culture of fear.

Bukele visit this week to Washington, DC – where Trump urged him to build more prisons for that He received American citizens Crimes – The results of the alliance were offered: Defense the Bukele method.

El Salvador now It was under The “exclusion state” – which relates to the aspects of the constitution and gives the government unusual forces to detention – for a period of three years. The international media has long stopped reporting every new monthly extension approved by the Legislative Authority, which is dominated by an overwhelming agent. According to the official narration, suspended civil freedoms are a synonym for the effective dismantling costs of criminal groups that dominated daily life in most Salvador. In fact, official data significantly indicates Low killing rateAnd extensive reports on real liberation from the scourge of gangs.

But the amazing human cost: Al Salvador is now The highest imprisonment rate In the world, her prisoners, including Thousands of childrenThey have been exposed to Systematic torture And human rights violations. However, an agent It is still very popularAnd he became an ambitious figure of Latin American leaders through the ideological spectrum.

Even Trump, none of the potential imitators of the agent of the agent to overcome rhetorical gestures, mysterious plans to build huge prisons, or separate emergency advertisements. What Trump understood – perhaps instinctively – is that the key is not the policies themselves, but it is continuous, A rude assault On the rule of lawand Which itself seems to be “doing something” about problems.

Like an agent, Trump claims that the strategy is working. It can indicate the fact that Migrant camps on US -Mexican border They emptied and flowed people across Treasury Daryn Gap Human Highway It has reflected the pathAs the cost of searching for asylum in a country that no longer gives it, at least at the present time, is very large.

However, these novels are misleading. Militaring is local security and the conduct of mass raids is the most single aspect of the Bukele strategy. Its unification of the authority also included controlling the legislative body, participating in the selection of the judiciary Negotiation secretly With gang leaders. In fact, in exchange for more than 200 from Trump’s Venezuelan’s Marah, the agent I negotiated to return Among the leaders of the MS-13 gangs, who say experts say they could have revealed details of the negotiations denied by President El Salvadori. Likewise, the decrease in numbers on the southern American border also reflects years of pressure on the United States, by democratic and republican governments, in Mexico and Central America to deter migration.

The Judicial Front can serve as a Litmus test for Trump’s release of the Bukele method. In Brazil, the judiciary was a meter for the authoritarian Gear Bolsonaro chip. Perhaps American institutions, much more powerful than El Salvador, will follow this path. In the United States, Resist the courts Parts of the deportation agenda and the executive authority, in turn, challenged the judiciary. Cases that involve deportation to El Salvador can Cast a constitutional crisisThe two branches dug the government against each other.

But it may not matter. Trump’s real innovation was the use of external sources in the most terrible parts of the immigration campaign, to the private sector, the actor and foreign sites. This, a lot of it is possible to leave it outside the domestic courts. Private companies are running deportations as some people were classified by hand and foot, without any concern about their safety. Trump benefited from legal black holes such as Guantanamo, which is Progress about Re -allocating the military bases in Panamanian lands. El Salvador is not just an ally-it is a criminal colony, a subcontractor.

the Celmar case ábrego García It explains the human cost of the emerging Bukele-TROMP method. the Al Salvadori man was deported By the American authorities because of what the authorities later described as a “administrative mistake.” In a back and forth sarcastic, Trump and his agent claim that the release of Parzia from prison from prison outside their control. It is just one of the thousands who are arbitrarily detained and distributed as terrorists by the two governments. This is not a secondary product, but an integral part of the approach, calculated for planting terrorism.

How many times will we see this? In March, the law of the legally residing Venezuelan in Washington, DC, was arrested in front of their children. Outside the camera, One child screaming: “They take him and do nothing,” while the younger brother sighs for their mother. Last month, ordinary immigration agents Displacement Rümeysa öztürkA Turkish doctoral student directly outside Boston-apparently in revenge for the opening that she participated in publishing in Tuffs Daily, and calls for getting rid of Israel. Security footage shows A convincing man seizes her hands while öztürk screams in terrorism. Then the convincing agents are accompanied by a residential street, a scene that could be raised from books that explain the collapse of democracies in Latin America that she studied at the same university, meters away from the place where Ozturk disappeared. In fact, it can happen here.

Bukele showed how the exception could last not only through brute force, but by raising the cost of speaking. In the exception of his condition, anyone can be classified as a criminal and often critics. Trump follows his followers, and his policies have already led to freedom of expression effectively for a group of people who should remain silent now for fear of holding fear of the streets. What Undersecretary and Trump Both understood that fear is not limited to resistance. It can be the basis of a new demand.

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