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El Salvador quarantine centers become points of contagion
May 18, 2020 (Mainichi Japan)
SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) -- Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele has imposed some of the hemisphere's toughest measures against the new coronavirus -- closing his country's borders, imposing a national quarantine and dispatching police and the army to detain violators.
An overwhelming majority of Salvadorans approve of Bukele's performance, but human rights advocates complain the 38-year-old leader has ignored the country's constitution and rulings by its Supreme Court.
At the heart of the controversy are "containment centers" where thousands of Salvadorans have been detained for more than a month at a time without judicial review, some swept off the street as they went to buy food for their families. Others had the bad luck to be traveling outside the country when Bukele imposed the quarantine and were locked up upon return...
El Salvador quarantine centers become points of contagion
May 18, 2020 (Mainichi Japan)
SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) -- Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele has imposed some of the hemisphere's toughest measures against the new coronavirus -- closing his country's borders, imposing a national quarantine and dispatching police and the army to detain violators.
An overwhelming majority of Salvadorans approve of Bukele's performance, but human rights advocates complain the 38-year-old leader has ignored the country's constitution and rulings by its Supreme Court.
At the heart of the controversy are "containment centers" where thousands of Salvadorans have been detained for more than a month at a time without judicial review, some swept off the street as they went to buy food for their families. Others had the bad luck to be traveling outside the country when Bukele imposed the quarantine and were locked up upon return...