#NewWorldReport: The brutality of El Salvador dragnets.Latin American Research Professor Evan Ellis, U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute. @revanellis #NewWorldReportEllis
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#NewWorldReport: The brutality of El Salvador dragnets.Latin American Research Professor Evan Ellis, U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute. @revanellis #NewWorldReportEllis
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/salvadorans-demand-release-innocents-jailed-anti-gang-sweep-2023-03-29/
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| 0:00.0 | I'm John Bachelors. This is the New World Report with Professor Ebenelis of the U.S. Army |
| 0:09.1 | War College. The Northern Triangle said to be the source of many of the migrants early |
| 0:14.9 | in the Biden administration. Honduras, Guatemala, and El Salvador. El Salvador led by a man |
| 0:21.2 | who is extremely unusual. Naíb Bukhale, his experiments with Bitcoin have come to a |
| 0:29.5 | disappointment. However, the larger story I learned from the professor and from the news |
| 0:35.1 | is that Bukhale is leading a roundup of people who appear to be gang members. And the numbers |
| 0:43.2 | in his jail have climbed so sharply over these last years that Reuters headline. Several |
| 0:49.6 | hundred people in El Salvador took to the streets on this week to protest year-long anti-gang |
| 0:55.3 | policies of President Bukhale. Many demanding the release of relatives, they have been unjustly |
| 1:02.7 | caught up in the sweeping dragnet. In Capitol Sun Salvador, many chanted freedom for the |
| 1:09.2 | innocent. Professor, I have noted in past photographs that come out of the jails in |
| 1:14.9 | Sense Salvador and other parts of El Salvador, looking like the gulag in a science fiction |
| 1:21.0 | colony. Young men jammed up against each other with their hands holding down their heads |
| 1:27.2 | by order in barely clothed in conditions that are, look, as if they're being treated |
| 1:34.6 | by no like chicken farms in the Midwest, they're crowded together and abused extremely. |
| 1:42.9 | And now this protest in Sense Salvador, Bukhale, what do we make of his tactics to round |
| 1:49.3 | up? How many is it in his jails? Professor, I don't have the good number. |
| 1:53.9 | China total over 90,000 in prison, but really since his new declaration of the state of emergency |
| 1:59.4 | and beginning to to round up gang members, about 65,000 new in turn of it and put in. And |
| 2:06.7 | it is important to understand the popularity of the Bukhale phenomenon and really the danger |
| 2:12.1 | that it and things like it because it's being copied in places like Honduras presents |
| 2:16.3 | to Central American and other democracies in human rights. The backstory is that El Salvador, |
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