El Salvador president’s mass arrests ‘punitive populism’

A woman talks to her son who has been arrested by the police, as he is taken to El Penalito temporary prison in Ciudad Delgado, El Salvador, Wednesday, April 6, 2022. El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele's has declared a state of emergency in a crackdown against gangs, suspending constitutional guarantees of freedom of assembly and loosening arrest rules for as much as thirty days. (AP Photo/Salvador Melendez)

El Salvador president’s mass arrests ‘punitive populism’