2023-05-17 02:53:13
The president of El Salvador, Nayib Bukele, warned that he is going to “devastate” the gang members following an agent of the National Civil Police (PNC) of that country was killed during an attack while on patrol with other police officers.
Bukele made a post on Twitter in reaction to the death of the police officer in the department of Chalatenango, located to the north.
“Let all the ‘human rights’ NGOs know, that we are going to wipe out these bloody murderers and their collaborators, we will put them in prison and they will never come out (sic)”, reads the publication that was quickly disseminated by users.
According to the Salvadoran authorities, the police officer “was attacked by gang members while on patrol with other police officers” at noon on Tuesday, May 16, 2023.
“We don’t care regarding your pitiful reporting, your paid journalists, your puppet politicians, or your famous ‘international community,’ who never cared regarding our people. We will heal our country and we will completely eliminate this plague,” Bukele added.
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More regime time once morest gangs
For now, the Salvadoran Congress, with a broad pro-government majority, is preparing to vote to extend for the fourteenth time the exception regime that already adds more than 66 thousand arrests since Bukele imposed it in March 2022.
The measure that suspends constitutional guarantees, such as the right to defense, also allows police officers to make arrests without a warrant of those suspected of belonging to gangs, branded by the Bukele government as “terrorists.”
The Minister of Security of El Salvador, Gustavo Villatoro, stated in a recent interview that Some 5,000 people arrested under the emergency regime have been released. That is, more than 7 percent of the total catches.
Villatoro rejected the accusations of various humanitarian organizations regarding the detention of people without ties to the gangs.
However, various media and reports reflect the testimonies of those who have been arrested, including the account of a merchant who exposed how one of his workers died following being beaten when both were admitted to a prison.
Humanitarian organizations have registered more than 5,000 “direct victims” of human rights violations, mainly due to arbitrary arrests and mistreatment in prisons.
With information from the EFE agency*
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