2 hours ago · El Salvador
‘I never saw my son, until they handed him over in a bag’: inside El Salvador’s brutal crime crackdown
What's happening
SignalsMonitor is following this as a conflict story. The Guardian UK is the outlet attached so far. The reports are tied to El Salvador. The first report grouped here was at 21 Oct 2026, 11:00 UTC. The headline in use is “‘I never saw my son, until they handed him over in a bag’: inside El Salvador’s brutal crime crackdown”. This note is SignalsMonitor's own briefing, not the publisher's article.
What we know
President Nayib Bukele’s campaign of mass arrest has been marked by allegations of torture and killing. Four years on, 120,000 people are still in prison At midnight on a Monday in December 2021, dozens of soldiers and police officers stormed into the home of Sandra Carolina Velasco Mena.
Story timeline
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- First reported by The Guardian UK
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- The Guardian