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The story of CECOT is no longer just about El Salvador\u2019s war on gangs; it is about how far democracies will go when fear becomes policy. Trump\u2019s decision to use an obscure wartime law to export alleged criminals into a prison described as a \u201cconcrete and steel pit\u201d collapses the line between justice and disappearance. No trials, no verdicts, yet effectively no way back.<\/p>\n

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For those locked inside, the ideology is simple: uniformity, humiliation, and erasure. Shaved heads, identical clothes, no names\u2014only numbers watched by unblinking cameras. Supporters call it necessary, even heroic, pointing to falling homicide rates and promising safety at home. But if states can dispose of unwanted people in places built to make them vanish, the question is no longer whether CECOT works. It is whether the rest of us are willing to live with what that \u201csuccess\u201d really means.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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