Bukele also highlighted in the aforementioned social network that a total of 2,163 “gang members” were detained “with less than 72 hours of exception regime”, which will be in force for 30 days. “No one will go free,” said the president, who has guaranteed that the authorities “will continue” with the so-called “war against the gangs.”
The Legislative Assembly of El Salvador 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 promised to stop it in the bud. In this context, also The maximum emergency has been decreed in all Salvadoran security and maximum security prisons.
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.
Human Rights Watch (HRW) wave Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) expressed their concern about the imposition of a state of exception in El Salvador, to which Bukele has responded that these organizations “defend gang members.”
Meanwhile, the United Nations also expressed concern about the wave of homicides in the Central American country.
Source: Ambito
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