Podcast: For a Portrait of Bukele, Look to His Prisons

<p>Salvadoran prisons are black boxes where reports of systematic torture have emerged, disease proliferates and medical care is denied, and at least 375 people died in custody. They are a focal point of corruption from the top brass to rank and file, and were the stage of Bukele’s pact with gangs — the collapse of which led to the state of exception.</p>