Greta and the Women of El Penalito

<p>One week into the state of exception and the police holding cells in San Salvador —las bartolinas— were already overflowing with people arrested during the first days of the emergency decree. Soon, the small facility would be holding as many as 600 people at a time. Meanwhile, outside the detention center, a world in miniature emerged, populated almost entirely by women, who arrived seeking information or to buy a plate of food for their loved ones detained inside. This is a story about that crowd: the women who gathered at the gates of El Penalito.</p>

Carlos Martínez