A crackdown in El Salvador, and fears of arbitrary arrests
Maria Dolores Garcia, the mother of Esmeralda Dominguez, looks out at the plants dying in her daughter’s unattended garden, in the Sisiguayo community in Jiquilisco, in the Bajo Lempa region of El Salvador, Thursday, May 12, 2022. Her daughter is among thousands arrested since the congress granted President Nayib Bukele a state of emergency declaration suspending civil liberties after street gangs killed dozens of people in late March. (AP Photo/Salvador Melendez)
By MARCOS ALEMAN and CHRISTOPHER SHERMAN Associated Press
LA LIMONERA, El Salvador — Esmeralda Domínguez was about 100 yards from home when soldiers and police blocked her on a small bridge. The authorities had waited there for hours...
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