For the fifteenth time, the Congress of El Salvador extends the emergency regime to attack gangs

The Congress of The Savior approved this Wednesday an extension for 30 days of an emergency regime by which the president Nayib Bukele holds a “war” against the violent gangs that have devastated the Central American country.

“With 67 votes (out of 84) the initiative of the President of the Republic is approved (…) in the sense that the emergency regime is extended”, declared the president of the Legislative Assembly, ernesto castro.

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This is the fifteenth extension of the exception regime, which will be in force from June 16 to July 15.

This regime, which among other things allows arrests without a prior judicial order, was established in response to an escalation of homicides that claimed the lives of 87 people between March 25 and 27, 2022.

“Salvadorans have regained their freedom”, declared the official deputy Walter Germanby justifying his vote in favor of the measure that led to the imprisonment of some 70,000 suspected gang members.

The deputy of the leftist ex-guerrilla of the Farabundo Martí Front for National Liberation (FMLN), Marleni Funesrejected the extension of the regime and when voting against asked for “dignify the victims” because “in the captures there are arbitrariness”.

The measure has been questioned by different humanitarian organizations for allegedly violating people’s rights, after the NGO Cristosal He denounced that in the first year of the regime, 153 people who were imprisoned died.

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On Tuesday, the attorney general, Rodolfo Delgadoacknowledged the death of 142 detainees under the emergency regime.

“So far we have filed 142 cases (of deaths) that do not constitute a crime according to our investigations“Delgado said.

Different surveys indicate that on average 9 out of 10 Salvadorans feel safe with the exception regime, which has already been in force for 15 months.

Source: Elcomercio

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