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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 on May 12. 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.

Human rights group alleges growing number of unjustified arrests in El Salvador (Infographic)

MARCOS ALEMÁN and CHRISTOPHER SHERMAN, Associated Press
June 2, 2022
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