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Humiliation as Propaganda: Videos of Shackled Detainees Have History in El Salvador

 

A video showing rough treatment of deportees over the weekend was an extraordinary depiction by U.S. standards, but not by El Salvador’s.

Stills from videos released by El Salvador’s president. Credit: @nayibbukele via X and Nayib Bukele via YouTube.

Stills from videos released by El Salvador’s president. Credit: @nayibbukele via X and Nayib Bukele via YouTube.

In a propaganda video released by the government of El Salvador, shackled detainees are forcefully led off planes as drones film overhead.

@nayibbukele via X.

 

The music builds and the men are pushed into armored vehicles and taken to a large prison.

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Author: James Wagner and Sarah Kerr

Source: N.Y Times

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