> Trashing human rights is always effective Hardly. What made Bukele's presidency impressive is that many other governments had tried the "mano dura" approach

> Trashing human rights is always effective Hardly. What made Bukele's presidency impressive is that many other governments had tried the "mano dura" approach before, but he was the first one to make it work, and nobody is sure why. There's evidence even he didn't expect it to work that well.