During this period, the government of Nayib Bukele It 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 homicides have occurred and the gangs wage bloody wars for territorial control.
Article 30 of the Constitution of El Salvador establishes that the period of suspension of constitutional guarantees “shall not exceed 30 days.” Once this period has elapsed, the suspension may be extended for the same period and by means of a new decree “if the circumstances that motivated it continue.”
“The conditions remain. We need more time to continue eradicating (gangs)“, said the Minister of Security, Gustavo Villatoro, adding that since March 27, 35,000 citizens linked to these groups have been arrested and more than 26,000 are in provisional detention ordered by a judge.
Villatoro has also specified that “never in 30 years had he confronted the gangs like this.” “It is a cancer that is not eradicated with two chemotherapy treatments“, has indicated the head of the Security portfolio, according to a statement.
“We have been very clear as the Security Cabinet of President Nayib Bukele: all the dissonant voices are not going to change our strategy. If it bothers you that the three powers of the State tie with the needs of the people, then define democracy again”, has added.
Human Rights Watch (HRW) or the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) have expressed concern about the imposition of a state of emergency in El Salvador, to which Bukele has replied that these organizations “defend gang members.” Meanwhile, the United Nations has also shown concern about the wave of homicides in the Central American country.
Source: Ambito
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