Geopolitics
The Salvadoran Mirage: Tourism's Gloss Over a Regime's Brutal Crackdown
El Salvador's government markets a tourist paradise of safe streets and scenic beauty while presiding over the mass arbitrary detention of its own citizens under an extended state of emergency, a brutal hypocrisy that exposes the hollowness of its security claims and the Western silence that enables such regimes to thrive. This grotesque spectacle of a government imprisoning human rights defenders like Ruth López to promote a façade of order for foreign visitors is a modern-day authoritarian blueprint, funded by the very tourism dollars that blind the world to its crimes.
