President Bukele demands gang members to “stop killing” in El Salvador

the president of The Savior, Nayib Bukeledemanded this Monday that the gang members, through a message on Twitter, “stop killing already” and warned that if the escalation of murders in the country does not stop, his fellow prisoners “They will pay for it too.”

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“We have 16,000 ‘homeboys’ (gang members) in our power. Apart from the 1,000 arrested these days. We seized everything from them, even their sleeping mats, we rationed their food and now they will no longer see the sun. Stop killing now or they will pay too”public Bukele.

The gangs have about 70,000 members in The Saviorof which 16,000 are imprisoned.

The Salvadoran president accompanied his “Message to the gangs” with a video in which movements of inmates are observed in a penal center, without detailing whether it is from recent days.

The Savior is under an exceptional regime, decreed early Sunday morning by Congress at the request of Bukelewhich suspends some constitutional guarantees.

The suspended rights are freedom of association and assembly, the right to defense, the prohibition of the intervention of telecommunications, in addition, the term of administrative detention was extended to 15 days, when it is normally 3 days.

Despite this extraordinary measure and the mass arrests, the gangs continued their challenge to the Government of Bukele.

The country recorded 14 homicides on Friday, 11 on Sunday and 62 on Saturday, making this last day the deadliest in recent history. The Savior.

The authorities attribute to the gangs, mainly the Mara Salvatrucha (MS13), the wave of violence, but they have not yet explained the reason for the increase.

This is not the first time that a Salvadoran government has sought to combat gangs with mass arrests. In the past, former presidents Francisco Flores (1999-2004) and Elías Antonio Saca (2004-2009) did it, with their Mano Dura and Super Mano Dura plans.

However, homicide rates remained on the rise until 2015, when The Savior became the most violent country in the world with 103 murders per 100,000 inhabitants.

After that year, the figures began to gradually decrease and the fall has been accentuated since 2019, when Bukele reached the Presidency.

Source: Elcomercio

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