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On Tuesday, El Salvador’s legislature approved an amendment to its constitution that would sentence “murderers, rapists and terrorists” to life in prison. It follows warnings by independent experts that the country’s authoritarian President Nayib Bukele is strengthening his grip on the country. Host Marco Werman learned more from Jorge Cuellar, assistant professor of Latin American, Latino and Caribbean Studies at Dartmouth College.