CENTRAL AMERICA IN MINUTES, Ep. 48: Crackdown tactics emerging from El Salvador’s Casa Presidencial and the U.S. White House have something in common: the willingness to sow fear and enact cruelty onto a population deemed criminal or expendable.

This sixth issue of Central America Monthly focuses on a single question: What is really happening in the world's most publicized prison system? Evidence of barbarism and state crimes emerging from Salvadoran prisons could constitute crimes against humanity.

In our podcast today, we present the Letter from the Editor.