Carolina Miranda, a former columnist for the LA Times, wrote in the Washington Post an op-ed likening El Salvador's infamous CECOT prison to a human zoo, decrying its use for political purposes.
In a lengthy publication, Miranda detailed how U.S. officials and social media personalities have used the facility to send tough-on-crime messages. She likened scenes to early 20th-century "human zoos" that displayed Indigenous people in fabricated, demeaning environments, especially as CECOT inmates look at cameras while visitors speak about them on camera just meters away.
