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Podcast: Bungacast
Episode: /388/ Betting on Bukele (I) ft. Nelson Rauda / Juan Rojas
Description:
On El Salvador and mass incarceration.Â
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Nayib Bukele, El Salvador's president, has just been re-elected on a landslide. His trademark policy is a state of emergency and the locking-up of tens of thousands of suspected gang members. He also made Bitcoin legal tender. What is 'Bukelismo', will it last, and will it spread?Â
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First, we talk to Nelson Rauda, an editor at investigative outlet El Faro about the mood in El Salvador, what the state of emergency has been like, who the main gangs are and whether Bukele has secretly been negotiating with them, and what opposition there is to Buke...