"For a long time, the main criticism of the festival was that it was too dark, too violent, too pessimistic. Unfortunately, we were ahead of our time." With this phrase, Jean-François Leroy, director of Visa pour l'Image, heads this year's festival program. "If you watch television and read the newspapers, you'll see that the world is dark. Our goal is to show the real world. Not princesses, not soccer players: the real world," he tells ARA.

A few months ago, the magazine The Lighthouse published interviews in which former leaders of gangs like Mara Salvatrucha revealed their pact with Nayib Bukele, the president of El Salvador, to get him votes in exchange for money and prison benefits. The president who put an end to gangs in El Salvador came to power thanks to them. And intends to stay, as demonstrated by the constitutional reform approved this Friday to eliminate term limits and remain in power. The revelation of these interviews forced all the editors ofThe Lighthouse to go into exile. Editor-in-chief Óscar Martínez visited Barcelona to participate in a debate at the Barcelona Center for Contemporary Culture (CCCB). Bukele with the bands for his election.

On Thursday, we discovered the delirious images of Kristi Noem, the US Secretary of Homeland Security, at the so-called Terrorism Confinement Center, the mega-prison in El Salvador used to combat gangs. The visit is part of the cooperation on migration between the governments of Donald Trump and Nayib Bukele. Recently, the United States interned 200 deported Venezuelans accused of belonging to criminal gangs. To do so, it used an 18th-century law, and there was no trial.

He President of El Salvador, Nayib Bukele, has received the support of his American counterpart, Donald Trump, in his particular "war on gangs"In a gesture almost unprecedented in history, Trump invoked the Alien Enemies Act of 1798. to deport 238 inmates to the Central American country members of the Venezuelan criminal organization Tren de Aragua. Without specifying whether they were convicted or what crimes they were accused of, they were dragged from a plane by heavily armed men. Chained hand and foot, they were taken to the Terrorist Confinement Center, where they were made to kneel and shaved bald while being forced to give their names. They were then taken to one of the large cells of this impregnable mega-prison in Tecoluca, 80 kilometers from the capital of the Central American country.

He President of El Salvador, Nayib Bukele, has received the support of his American counterpart, Donald Trump, in his particular "war on gangs"In a gesture almost unprecedented in history, Trump invoked the Alien Enemies Act of 1798. to deport 238 inmates to the Central American country members of the Venezuelan criminal organization Tren de Aragua. Without specifying whether they were convicted or what crimes they were accused of, they were dragged from a plane by heavily armed men. Chained hand and foot, they were taken to the Terrorist Confinement Center, where they were made to kneel and shaved bald while being forced to give their names. They were then taken to one of the large cells of this impregnable mega-prison in Tecoluca, 80 kilometers from the capital of the Central American country.