‘I never saw my son, until they handed him over in a bag’: inside El Salvador’s brutal crime crackdown

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The Guardian

‘I never saw my son, until they handed him over in a bag’: inside El Salvador’s brutal crime crackdown

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 prison At 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 say…