A group of 2,500 elements of the Army and the Police were deployed early this Monday (10/28/2024) in a populous neighborhood of El Salvador to implement a “security fence” due to the presence of gangs, announced in Twitter) the president Nayib Bukele.
The president published that “police intelligence has determined that in the October 10 Colonyin San Marcos, San Salvador South, there is a group of hidden gang members. He added that “today, in the early hours of the morning, we have established a security fence throughout the neighborhood, with 2,000 soldiers and 500 police officers, to extract every last gang member found in the area.” Bukele accompanied his publication with a video in which the military and police can be seen deploying in the area.
This “security fence” joins others implemented in other areas of the Central American country to “fight” gangs in the context of an emergency regime, in force since March 2022.
This emergency regime, which suspends constitutional guarantees such as the right to defense, was approved after the murder of more than 80 people in a weekend at the end of March 2022, which local media investigations The Lighthouse They point out that it was due to breaking of a pact between the Government and the so-called empty.
With more than 81,900 arrests, this extraordinary measure has become the main and only bet of the Bukele Executive against the gangs, which achieved his immediate re-election, despite the constitutional prohibition.
Various humanitarian organizations have received more than 6,400 complaints of human rights violations, mainly due to arbitrary arrests and torture, and report more than 300 deaths of people detained in state custody, most with signs of violence.
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2024-10-29 02:17:00