Mon, Jun 02
|Washington
Profs & Pints DC: El Salvador as Gang State
“El Salvador as Gang State,” a look at that nation’s crackdowns, corruption, and imprisonment of U.S. deportees, with Michael A. Paarlberg, associate professor of political science at Virginia Commonwealth University
Time & Location
Jun 02, 2025, 6:00 PM – 8:30 PM
Washington, 801 E St NW, Washington, DC 20004, USA
About the event
Profs and Pints DC presents: “El Salvador as Gang State,” a look at that nation’s crackdowns, corruption, and imprisonment of U.S. deportees, with Michael A. Paarlberg, associate professor of political science at Virginia Commonwealth University, associate fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies, and leading expert on El Salvador’s politics and crime.
Much has been in the news about El Salvador and its mercurial strongman leader, President Nayib Bukele, as its notorious CECOT prison has become a destination for people deported at the behest of our own nation’s own president, Donald Trump.
Unfortunately, much of what the American public has been reading and hearing has been wrong. It glosses over how much Bukele’s government has jailed innocent people while cooperating with notorious gangs, and it distorts the truth about Bukele’s authoritarian rule, the operations of Salvadoran gangs, and the justifications for U.S. deportations to that country.
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