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What does justice look like?聽One vision has prisoners, transported from abroad, being hustled heads-down from white buses into a vast, forbidding detention center in El Salvador. If the vibe is authoritarian, that鈥檚 by design. The country鈥檚 president, Nayib Bukele, has famously called himself 鈥渢he world鈥檚 coolest dictator.鈥�
Today, a Salvadoran writer looks at Mr. Bukele鈥檚 consolidated approach 鈥� the president 鈥渆ffectively runs all three branches of the government,鈥� he writes 鈥� and at whether his tactics聽could emerge more broadly.
