“Bukele has become a symbol of populist strength in the region, with admirers in Guatemala and beyond. Corzo saw his own political act as resisting the easy temptation of blind vengeance. He’d been a victim of a ghastly crime, and yet it motivated him to try to understand why it had happened.”

“When Corzo and I spoke, he described his entire project as an exercise in anti-Bukelismo—a reference to the authoritarian President of El Salvador, Nayib Bukele, who has jailed eighty-six thousand people since the spring of 2022, as part of a campaign to rid the country of its criminal gangs.“

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"In contemporary higher education, resources are allocated to those who can make a data-driven case for them — that’s part of what it means to run a school like a business. Removing libraries from the survey means that they can’t be counted at all."

“…The good news is that we don’t need to become experts in any region to move with and towards humanity, connection, and solidarity.” — adrienne maree brown, “loving corrections.”

congrats and thank you for this work! 👏🏽