2023-07-24 19:55:32
The number of people detained in El Salvador in the context of the emergency regime, implemented by the government of President Nayib Bukele to put an end to gangs, amounts to more than 71,770, according to the head of the Ministry of Security, Gustavo Villatoro, said on Monday.
“To date, and after a year of implementation, we have 71,776 captures,” the official commented during a morning interview on a local channel.
Villatoro pointed out that the Salvadoran security authorities “have communication” with those of Mexico, Belize, Guatemala and “even with the United States” to capture members of said structures that “They have fled to those countries.
He pointed out that, “thanks to this collaboration”, Approximately 30 people have been located and detained in Guatemala, “up to 15” in Belize, “between 4 or 5” in Honduras and approximately 3 in Costa Rica.
Besides, He pointed out that to date “1,100 gang leaders (leaders) have been captured” and that in the Center for the Confinement of Terrorism (Cecot), a prison with a capacity for at least 40,000 gang members, there are 12,500 detainees, all gang members, according to the minister.
The Legislative Assembly, with a large pro-government majority, approved on July 11 the sixteenth extension for 30 days of the emergency measure that suspends various constitutional guarantees, such as the right to defense.
Since March 2022, Congress decreed the suspension of the right to defense of detainees, the inviolability of telecommunications, and extended the term of administrative detention to a maximum of 15 days.
According to the complaints collected by humanitarian organizations recently disclosed, The number of “direct victims” of human rights violations under the emergency regime reached at least 5,490.
The figures shared by social organizations indicate that there are about 13 thousand 581 “violating acts”of which the most denounced is arbitrary detention in 95.32%, between March 27, 2022 and June 30 last.
On July 14, the State of El Salvador denied before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) the accusations of the humanitarian organizations about abuses, harassment of the press and torture
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