{"id":18075,"date":"2025-08-27T15:59:27","date_gmt":"2025-08-27T15:59:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=18075"},"modified":"2025-08-27T15:59:27","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T15:59:27","slug":"the-cost-of-control-civil-rights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=18075","title":{"rendered":"The Cost of Control | Civil Rights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<\/p>\n<p>With rare access to El Salvador\u2019s most secure prisons, we explore the dark side of President Bukele\u2019s gang crackdown.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight:400\">President Nayib Bukele introduced a state of emergency in El Salvador, using it to dismantle the violent gangs that had terrorised the Central American country for decades. Thousands of alleged gang members have been rounded up and locked away, many of them in CECOT, a huge, purpose-built high-security prison.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight:400\">The streets are now safe, but at what cost? Government forces are accused of arbitrarily detaining innocent people without trial or even charge, and in some cases, of violence and torture.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight:400\"><em>People &amp; Power<\/em> gained rare access to two of El Salvador\u2019s maximum-security prisons, looking behind the scenes of Bukele\u2019s bid to bust the gangs.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Published On 27 Aug 2025<\/span><span aria-hidden=\"true\">27 Aug 2025<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With rare access to El Salvador\u2019s most secure prisons, we explore the dark side of President Bukele\u2019s gang crackdown. President Nayib Bukele introduced a state of emergency in El Salvador, using it to dismantle the violent gangs that had terrorised the Central American country for decades. Thousands of alleged gang members have been rounded up<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18076,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[2346,97,342,702],"class_list":{"0":"post-18075","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-politics","8":"tag-civil","9":"tag-control","10":"tag-cost","11":"tag-rights"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18075","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18075"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18075\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/18076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}