The InSight Take: El Salvador’s Mass Trials Put Bukele’s Gang Crackdown on Display El Salvador’s mass trials of alleged gang members are the latest phase in President Nayib Bukele’s hardline security model. InSight Crime's Managing Editor and Central America Investigator discuss how the trials, which group hundreds of defendants and thousands of crimes into single proceedings, raise troubling questions about whether collective punishment is replacing individual justice. The post The InSight Take: El Salvador’s Mass Trials Put Bukele’s Gang Crackdown on Display appeared first on InSight Crime .