El Rosario, El Salvador ¨C Jade comes home from school each day to feed the chickens at her home in the Central American nation of El Salvador with her classmates¡¯ taunts ringing in her ears.
Her father is one of 91,000 people, mostly young men, rounded up by iron-fisted President Nayib Bukele and thrown into prison since 2022 under a state of emergency imposed to fight violent gangs.
¡°It hurts me when they say he¡¯s some kind of gang member,¡± the slight teenager said, referring to the schoolyard jibes.
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