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the president of The Savior, Nayib Bukeleassured this Wednesday that he is about to win the war against the violent gangs that controlled 80% of the territory of this Central American country.
“Today we are about to win the most difficult battle of all, we are very close to winning the war against the gangs,” assured Bukele in a message to Congress and broadcast on radio and television on the occasion of his third year in office.
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The president affirmed that since the end of the civil war (1980-1992) the gangs have been the cause of the death of at least 120,000 people.
“In these 30 years (after the end of the war) 70% of Salvadorans were affected by violence” of these criminal groups.
“Today, El Salvador is very close to living a new reality that for decades was denied us: having a country without gangs,” emphasized.
The Savior, With some 70,000 gang members, it struggles to escape from the list of the countries with the most homicides in the world.
After the murder of 87 people in the country from March 25 to 27, Bukele decreed a state of emergency that has been extended.
The “war” of Bukele He put thousands of soldiers to patrol the streets and in the last two months has taken more than 36,000 alleged members of the “maras” to jail without a court order, adding to the 16,000 more who were already in prison.
Source: Elcomercio
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