All those people turned into meat, mere meat sandwiched between windowless concrete and steel… Flesh without spirit, without breath, without subjectivity, a simple accumulation of muscles and viscera, of identical heads and identical limbs and identical looks. One imagines oneself being part of that opaque picture, of all that accumulated flesh, and one wonders why.
We know why, because by providing us, along with these devastating images, with the statistics that speak of the decrease in crimes in El Salvador, the brain establishes a simple equation: security is equivalent to the chronic violation of human rights.
These prisons have been the subject of reports in all the newspapers one frequents. The Government of that country is not only not ashamed to show its prison system, but is proud of it, which is why it proposes it as a model for the rest of the world. The naïve reader (myself) reads them, reads these reports, then looks at the photos that illustrate them, and is often the victim of cognitive dissonance, since he is hurt, on the one hand, by the indecency of depersonalizing people in this way. prisoners, but is pleased, on the other hand, that citizens can move without fear through the streets. Now, aren't there ways to make citizen security compatible with ethics? Of course there are, and of course we are obliged to look for them and put them into practice. But this does not apply to dictators, which is why Bukele has undertaken this global propaganda campaign about the benefits of political corruption.
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