Has your tía been talking about how nice el paisito is now that all the mareros are in jail? Are you glad to be able to visit the family rancho without getting mugged, but maybe a little disturbed that this is due to the Salvadoran equivalent of an ICE raid?

Are mareros people? Can we solve all our problems by locking them up and throwing away the key? Should Youtubers have more of a right to visit prison than the families of incarcerated folks? Why are we so tranqui about mass incarceration in El Salvador but riot against it in the United States?

We’ll address these and many more inquietudes in this episode, where we interview Mayra the anthropologist, who studies how family dynamics are affected by Salvadoran carceral regimes. We skip the coverage of Kilmar Abrego and the Venezuelan deportees to get to the heart of what mass incarceration means for everyday Salvadorans since their civil liberties were suspended under the state of exception three years ago.

No charges. No trials. No end in sight.

Come with us this season to listen to these and other stories from what we affectionately call Hell Salvador.

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Correction: The PSA at the end is by the Progressive Action Fund, not the Democratic Party.