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3 weeks ago | 
rsn.org | Danielle Mackey
An MS-13 leader knew key details of a secret deal that his gang allegedly made with the Salvadoran President—then the White House put him on a flight to El Salvador. By now, the images of Donald Trump’s March 15th flights to El Salvador are all too familiar: shackled Venezuelans being off-loaded from U.S. planes at the country’s Terrorism Confinement Center, or CECOT, and cowering as their heads are forcibly shaved by other prisoners.
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3 weeks ago | 
newyorker.com | Danielle Mackey
By now, the images of Donald Trump’s March 15th flights to El Salvador are all too familiar: shackled Venezuelans being off-loaded from U.S. planes at the country’s Terrorism Confinement Center, or CECOT, and cowering as their heads are forcibly shaved by other prisoners.
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Nov 19, 2024 | 
pikaramagazine.com | Danielle Mackey
La victoria de Donald Trump deja una sensación de luto pero cimienta la esperanza en una vida más comunal. “Nuestra liberación colectiva no será producto de la urna”, publica la revista de política y cultura negra estadounidense 'Hammer & Hope'. Vivir en los países de América últimamente ha conllevado un tipo de duelo extraño.
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Oct 22, 2024 | 
thedial.world | Danielle Mackey
On May 4, 2021, Vice President Kamala Harris stood on a podium at the Washington Conference on the Americas and took aim at the government of El Salvador, headed by President Nayib Bukele. Just three days before the conference, he — along with the Legislative Assembly of El Salvador, controlled by his Nuevas Ideas party — had illegally fired the attorney general and all five magistrates in the constitutional chamber of the Salvadoran Supreme Court. Harris decried the move.
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May 10, 2024 | 
theguardian.com | Danielle Mackey |Bethzabe Palma
Seven years ago, El Salvador banned all mining for metals to protect its water supply. But now the government seems to be making moves to reverse the ban – and environmental activists are in the firing line. By Danielle Mackey How to listen to podcasts: everything you need to know
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May 7, 2024 | 
gatopardo.com | Fernanda Jiménez |Danielle Mackey
Tiempo de lectura: 23 minutosEl celular de Vidalina Morales sonó a mediados de la tarde. Era el 17 de mayo de 2023. Ella estaba en el estado rural de Cabañas, El Salvador. Escuchó la voz de su hijo Manuel, de 33 años, pero sonaba extraña. “Aquí me tienen en el puesto policial”, dijo apresuradamente. Lo habían arrestado mientras jugaba fútbol con amigos en un campo cercano. Morales intentó respirar.
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Apr 5, 2024 | 
newyorker.com | Danielle Mackey
On the afternoon of February 4th, as Salvadorans were voting in Presidential and legislative elections, a fifty-seven-year-old writer named Carlos Bucio Borja walked into a polling place near his home in the capital and began to read the constitution aloud.
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Apr 3, 2024 | 
theguardian.com | Danielle Mackey
On the afternoon of 17 May 2023, in the rural El Salvador state of Cabañas, Vidalina Morales’s mobile phone rang. It was her 33-year-old son, Manuel, but his voice sounded strange. “They have me here in the police station,” he said. He’d been arrested while playing football with friends on a local field. Morales tried to breathe. This had long been her worst fear: that her loved ones would be targeted on account of her work.
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Mar 12, 2024 | 
thedial.world | Danielle Mackey
On the afternoon of May 17, 2023, in the rural state of Cabañas, El Salvador, Vidalina Morales' cell phone rang. It was her 33-year old son, Manuel, but his voice sounded strange. “They have me here in the police station,” he said, rushed. He'd been arrested while playing soccer with friends on a local field. Morales tried to breathe. This had long been her worst fear: that her loved ones would be targeted on account of her work.
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Dec 13, 2023 | 
newrepublic.com | Danielle Mackey
They were just a few blocks from the Intercontinental whenthey made a last turn onto a boulevard that was blocked by dozens of police andsoldiers, who belted into a loudspeaker, “Señores from MOVIR: You cannotproceed!” A soldier perched in the hatch of a Yagu-brand tank—reportedlyacquired from Israel last year so Bukele could combat gangs—studied the families,his finger on the trigger. Ramírez stared back.
