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)
June 2, 2022
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June 2, 2022 2:05 p.m.
A crackdown in El Salvador, and fears of arbitrary arrests
Cristosal, a nongovernmental organization, has documented more than 500 cases of arbitrary arrests