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Inside Nayib Bukele’s Brutal Security Crackdown
On today's Big Take podcast, we discuss Nayib Bukele’s crime clampdown in El Salvador — and what it means for the rest of Latin America.
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Nayib Bukele has brought violent criminal gangs to a heel in El Salvador, transforming the country into one of the safest in Latin America. That’s made him extremely popular, even as human-rights groups have condemned mass arrests and what they say are other abuses of civil liberties.