Life imitates art as El Salvador pressures book fair to bar dissenting writer

Salvadorian protesters demand the release of their imprisoned relatives in San Salvador, El Salvador, on 7 July. Photograph: Rodrigo Sura/EPA

First the soldiers came for those with mohawks. Then they came for the hairdressers themselves.

“They were good kids,” quips the narrator in one of the latest tales by the Salvadorian author Michelle Recinos, “although I’d never trusted them with my hair.”