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

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

Barbers on Strike, author Michelle Recinos’s collection of short stories, has apparently upset strongman president Nayib Bukele

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 Salvadoran author Michelle Recinos, “although I’d never trusted them with my hair.”

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