From the Bowels of Bukele’s Prisons: Survivors Recount Death, Torture, and Starvation

<p>The voices of these survivors of the prisons of the Salvadoran regime of exception depict barbarism sparing few horrors: murders by guards; elaborate torture involving hangings, placing bricks on people, or tear gas; abortions; untreated illnesses; and extreme hunger. Over two years, El Faro interviewed 27 people released from these prisons, who were not gang members, and who dared to recount cruelty reminiscent of El Salvador’s clandestine prisons of the 1980s.</p>

Carlos Martínez Carlos Barrera Óscar Martínez Nelson Rauda Victoria Delgado Víctor Peña Gabriel Labrador Graciela Barrera