The Salvadoran Legislative Assembly, with an official majority, approved on Sunday the entry into force for 30 days of the emergency regime throughout the country to combat the wave of homicides, which on Saturday left more than 60 dead.
The crime wave has been on the rise since the beginning of the year and the president, Nayib Bukelehas promised to tackle it at the root, despite the fact that the opposition criticized the measure as “anti-democratic”.
Bukele has echoed the arrests and has greeted that the number is high “in just two days”. “The exception regime for 30 days, extendable,” she warned, stressing that the gang members “will not go free.”
Along with the state of exception, Bukele ordered the general director of El Salvador’s Penal Centers, Osiris Luna, to decree the maximum emergency in all security and maximum security prisons. “All the cells closed 24 hours a day, seven days a week, nobody goes out or to the patio,” he asked on Twitter, before sending a “message to the gangs: for their actions, now their ‘homeboys’ –colleagues– They won’t be able to see a single ray of sunlight.”
The Salvadoran president has also warned that “if the international community is worried about their little angels” they should “go” and “bring them food” because he “It will not take budget away from schools to feed these terrorists.”
“We are going to ration the same food that is given now and from there the new ones will also eat,” he assured. Luna has assured Bukele that “the order will be carried out immediately” and has specified on the aforementioned social network that the prisoners “will have two meal times a day and the menu will be revised so that it is cheaper in security prisons and maximum security”.
For 30 days, the Salvadoran government is empowered to suspend certain freedoms and guarantees to facilitate the deployment of the military and police in the streets and in the municipalities where these homicides occurred.
Source: Ambito
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