2023-11-09 00:52:35
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The Legislative Assembly of El Salvador extended on Tuesday for the twentieth time the emergency regime through which President Nayib Bukele maintains a “war” against gangs, which led to the arrest of 73,800 alleged members of these gangs.
“The emergency regime is extended throughout the national territory,” states the decree that was approved by 67 votes in favor in the Unicameral Congress of 84 seats.
This is the twentieth extension, which will be in effect from November 13 to December 12.
According to the decree, the regime must continue because the “threat is still present” and to continue the “restoration of order, citizen security and territorial control.”
Deputy Guillermo Gallegos, close to the ruling party, was pleased to vote for the extension of the regime after pointing out that the gangs were “the cancer that had eaten away at our society” and that led to the death of “miles of Salvadorans.”
In response to an escalation of 87 murders in one weekend attributed to gangs in March 2022, the Salvadoran government maintains a “war” against these gangs under the protection of the emergency regime, which is questioned by different human rights organizations.
In 19 months, the measure that allows arrests without a court order, totals more than 73,800 alleged gang members detained. More than 7,000 innocent people have been freed.
Different surveys from universities established that on average 9 out of 10 Salvadorans feel safe with the exception regime.
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