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Marketing Authoritarianism - Mimicking his Salvadoran ally Nayib Bukele, Trump is using spectacles of disappearance to project a total power he does not yet possess.

JL;DR SUMMARY In a disturbing display of power, former U.S. President Donald Trump is emulating Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele by using dramatic depictions of deportation and detention as a political tool. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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Donald TrumpHuman RightsAuthoritarianismDeportationImmigration PolicySocial Media PropagandaSpectacleEl SalvadorNayib BukeleOperation Condor

Places mentioned

El Salvador
"...maximum-security facility in rural El Salvador designed to incarcerate thousands of prisoners indefinitely."
Somerville, Massachusetts, United States
"Bystander footage of random and violent arrests has been enough to do the job, including a video of an anti-war graduate student being snatched off the street by masked Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents in Somerville, Massachusetts..."
New Bedford, Massachusetts, United States
"Bystander footage of random and violent arrests has been enough to do the job, including... of a family in New Bedford having their car broken into by a sledgehammer-wielding ICE agent..."
New York, United States
"...and a third still depicting the aftermath of ICE stopping a bus carrying migrant workers in upstate New York, where the agency plucked off a small, handpicked group of worker leaders."
Argentina
"...right-wing governments of Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Paraguay, and Uruguay all collaborated on Operation Condor..."
Bolivia
"...right-wing governments of Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Paraguay, and Uruguay all collaborated on Operation Condor..."
Brazil
"...right-wing governments of Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Paraguay, and Uruguay all collaborated on Operation Condor..."
Chile
"...right-wing governments of Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Paraguay, and Uruguay all collaborated on Operation Condor..."
Paraguay
"...right-wing governments of Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Paraguay, and Uruguay all collaborated on Operation Condor..."
Uruguay
"...right-wing governments of Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Paraguay, and Uruguay all collaborated on Operation Condor..."
Nicaragua
"Right-wing governments and combatants in Nicaragua, Guatemala, Honduras, and, indeed, El Salvador, also employed disappearance as a political technique..."
Guatemala
"Right-wing governments and combatants in Nicaragua, Guatemala, Honduras, and, indeed, El Salvador, also employed disappearance as a political technique..."
Honduras
"Right-wing governments and combatants in Nicaragua, Guatemala, Honduras, and, indeed, El Salvador, also employed disappearance as a political technique..."

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