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Record W4406017964 · doi:10.1080/10402659.2024.2447442

Bukele’s Ultra Iron Fist: Peace, But at What Cost

2025· article· en· W4406017964 on OpenAlexaboutno aff
Bill Ong Hing

Bibliographic record

VenuePeace Review · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicCrime, Illicit Activities, and Governance
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsFistGovernment (linguistics)TRIPS architectureLawPopularityPolitical scienceEngineering

Abstract

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At age 43, Nayib Bukele, the President of El Salvador, who brands himself as a “philosopher king,” enjoys a 90 percent approval rating. His popularity is due to his transformation of a country that was once the murder capital of the world into a nation that is safer than Canada, according to his government’s data. Residents are free to walk in streets and lounge in parks that were former gang-controlled areas.By the end of August 2015, almost 4,000 people had already been murdered in El Salvador that year—on average one killing every hour. Largely fueled by warring gangs, by 2016, the country became the “murder capital of the world,” with a killing rate twenty-two times that of the United States. Violence had become normalized, schools were protected by barbed wire and patrolled by soldiers, armed private security guards stood at entrances to businesses, fear permeated daily life, shopping trips were circumscribed by safety concerns, and shopkeepers were commonly extorted by the gangs. Previous government “Iron Fist” crackdowns were deemed a failure at dismantling gang structures. However, Bukeley has taken the “Iron Fist” approach to a new level of human rights violations. The resulting calm on the street raises the question: at what cost has the apparent peace come.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.003
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.011
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: Not applicable
GenreCandidate signal: Commentary · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.029
Threshold uncertainty score0.057

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0030.011
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.002
Science and technology studies0.0020.003
Scholarly communication0.0070.006
Open science0.0010.002
Research integrity0.0030.005
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0110.002

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.028
GPT teacher head0.344
Teacher spread0.316 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreCommentary

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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