Anatomy of a Siege

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Nayib Bukele wins the presidential election in the first round

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This timeline reaches 2026. The setbacks don't.

What this investigation documents cannot be read as a closed story. Stigmatization, institutional capture, legal strangulation, direct repression, and forced exile describe a process whose consequences are still unfolding.

For this reason, this special issue does not propose a finality. It proposes a warning.

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