El Rosario, El Salvador – 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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