The Rachman Review

El Salvador’s ‘jailer for hire’


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Gideon talks to the FT’s Michael Stott about Nayib Bukele, president of El Salvador, whose friendship with Donald Trump has been in the spotlight over his willingness to imprison US deportees, notably Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia. Clip: The White House


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Free links to read more on this topic:

Nayib Bukele: the TikTok authoritarian feted across Latin America

El Salvador’s Bukele refuses to repatriate man wrongly deported from US

How El Salvador became a model for the global far right

Trump is halfway to making America a police state

El Salvador offers to swap Venezuelan US deportees for political prisoners


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