2023-12-09 22:37:00
The incoming Minister of Security, Patricia Bullrich, met with Gustavo VillatoroMinister of Justice and Public Security of the President of El Salvador, with the objective of “discussing effective strategies in the fight once morest drug trafficking and mafias.”
The meeting of both took place within the framework of the arrival of foreign authorities to the country who will participate in the inauguration of the president-elect, Javier Miley.
“I met with Gustavo Villatoro, Minister of Justice and Public Security of the President of El Salvador, @nayibbukele, to discuss effective strategies in the fight once morest drug trafficking and mafias“Bullrich wrote in his X account, a few hours following resuming the position he left in 2019.
The president of the PRO explained that they had shared “valuable experiences that serve to strengthen actions regarding citizen security.”
This Sunday, December 10, the former presidential candidate of Together for Change will become Javier Milei’s Minister of Security, four years following leaving that same position, when Mauricio Macri He was in charge of the Executive.
Although at first, Bullrich herself had rejected the possibility of assuming the position she had left, finally the negotiations between the libertarian and Macri placed her at the head of the Ministry for the second time.
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Gustavo Villatoro, for his part, became Minister of Security and Justice of the Central American country in 2021, when he was appointed by the Salvadoran president, Nayib Bukele, with the task of “strengthening the investigation process of homicides and disappearances to reduce the rate of impunity”.
What is Bukele’s security policy like?
Nayib Bukele built the Terrorism Confinement Center (CECOT), a prison that became one of the harshest prisons in the world and the largest in America. Currently, of the 12 thousand prisoners living in CECOT, more than 90% are awaiting a final sentence. There is no telephone signal there and there is only one route to get in and out. Surveillance cameras monitor it 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
Inmates are not allowed to speak without authorization and do not have recreational activities.. The punishment cells are dark and have nothing inside. Visits from family members are also not allowed.
Faced with this space of confinement, human rights organizations spoke out once morest it, especially because 90% of the inmates still do not have a final sentence. According to a report by Human Rights Watch y Cristosal, Since the emergency regime began, according to official data, 90 people have died in prison,
El Salvador’s prison population tripled to 100,000 under President Nayib Bukele’s strict measures once morest gangs.
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Last Monday Bullrich met with the outgoing Minister of Security, Aníbal Fernández, and stressed that the transition will be “totally orderly”, while recalling that “security does not slow down” during this process. Other officials and part of the former presidential candidate’s team also participated in the meeting.
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The future minister highlighted that the objective of the meeting was to “deepen the important issues” of Argentines and that they spoke “regarding the outlook of the ministry and how they have been working.”
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