The president, Javier Mileiwill receive its counterpart from El Salvador, Nayib Bukelenext Monday, September 30. As confirmed by Scope According to official sources, the president will arrive in Argentina on the 29th of this month and will stay for three days. Although details of the agenda were not revealed, officials with offices at Balcarce 50 stated that We will seek to strengthen bilateral ties, especially on security issues.
This will be Bukele’s first time in the country, since although he had been invited to the presidential inauguration, He was absent because he was on leavepreparing for the elections with which he achieved re-election. Meanwhile, the libertarian Yes, he attended when the Salvadoran assumed his second termand they even held a private meeting afterwards.
Since taking over the reins of the national Executive, Milei has expressed her admiration for the fight against crime carried out by the Bukele administration. It is worth remembering that the Minister of Security, Patricia Bullrichalso traveled to El Salvador and even met with the president, with whom he signed an agreement to combat transnational crime.
During her visit, Bullrich published a tweet in which she highlighted the policies carried out by Bukele in terms of security: “From a country taken over by violence, drug trafficking and gangs that killed 150,000 Salvadorans, to one of the safest countries in the world, where families have recovered their lives and live in peace. This is the way. Tough on criminals. Freedom for good Argentines.”.
In June, Bullrich introduced Alejandra Monteoliva to society, who took over from Vicente Ventura Barreiro. The Secretary of Security fits the profile of a tough-minded person that Bullrich is looking for. “She has proven experience as a security consultant in countries such as Honduras and El Salvador, where she worked on the successful Bukele model; and in management, both in Colombia and in our country,” the minister posted on her Twitter account, as a welcome.
By welcoming Bukele, La Libertad Avanza will clash head-on with a system of government that is being questioned by international organizations. At the beginning of September, the Legislative Assembly of that country, controlled by the ruling party Nuevas Ideas (NI), approved the thirtieth extension of the state of exceptionin force since March 2022 and which suspends constitutional rights.
This way, The extension was approved for one more month without legislative debate.which means that the right to defence of detainees, the inviolability of telecommunications and the maximum administrative detention of 3 days remain suspended.
“The extraordinary measures have had a successful outcome “which has led to a reduction in the number of homicides and the capture of more than 81,900 terrorists,” argued the Council of Ministers in the approved request for extension. The document added that “It is necessary to extend this exceptional regime, with regard to extraordinary measures, linked to the limitation of rights”because “at this time they are the ones that are necessary to continue operational security activities.” In total, the Bukele government has carried out 30 extensions of the regime under the objective of “healing” the country of gangs.
Various humanitarian organizations estimated that there were more than 6,000 complaints of human rights violations. In El Salvador, there are many cases of arbitrary arrests, torture and the death of more than 300 detainees.
Source: Ambito
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