Best viewing is between midnight and dawn. April 23 – The Lyrid meteor shower peaks this morning.April 25 – The Moon and Mars pair up this evening, high in the west after dark. April 23 – The crescent Moon hangs just five degrees above Venus in the west after sunset.April 15-16 – Find the Moon near Saturn in the east, in the couple of hours before sunrise.April 11 – Venus sits near the Pleiades star cluster this evening in the west.April 11 – Mercury is at its highest in the evening sky for the year, for Northern Hemisphere observers.Today on Up First Sunday, NPR's Eyder Peralta tells us about what he heard and witnessed during his recent reporting trip to the country.Spot Mercury after sunset early in the month, follow the Moon's visits with the planets, and catch a shooting star when the Lyrid meteors peak on April 23. But critics of the policies say the human rights costs have been way too high. The government has also opened a new "mega prison" to house the exploding numbers of detainees, a place where, President Bukele said, "they would live for decades." El Salvador, once a country with one of the highest murder rates in the world, is now safe. Salvadoran president Nayib Bukele has been the force behind the country's "state of exception." His "reforms" have included harsh new sentencing guidelines, which have lowered the point of criminal responsibility from 16 years of age to just 12. So far, they've arrested more than 60-thousand people. The courts have waived human rights protections, allowing police to detain anyone they suspect of having gang affiliations-even without evidence. For the past year, the government of El Salvador has been in the midst of an extraordinary crackdown on gangs.ApThe Sunday Story: The price of peace in El Salvador
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