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Clayton Collins
What does justice look like? One vision has prisoners, transported from abroad, being hustled heads-down from white buses into a vast, forbidding detention center in El Salvador. If the vibe is authoritarian, that’s by design. The country’s president, Nayib Bukele, has famously called himself “the world’s coolest dictator.”
Today, a Salvadoran writer looks at Mr. Bukele’s consolidated approach – the president “effectively runs all three branches of the government,” he writes – and at whether his tactics could emerge more broadly.
