Bukele says “it’s not about blowing and making bottles” in times of wave of violence in Ecuador

The Salvadoran president and candidate for immediate re-election by the party New ideas (NONE), Nayib Bukelehighlighted that “it’s not about blowing and making bottles” at a time when Ecuador It is in a state of emergency and in an “internal armed conflict” declared by the president, Daniel Noboa.

Bukele published your text on social media Guayaquil and other cities in Ecuadoralthough the candidate immediate re-election -prohibited by Constitution– did not issue a direct reaction to the situation in the South American country.

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The president of Ecuador, Daniel Noboaissued a decree declaring the existence of a internal armed conflict at national level and orders military forces to act to dismantle twenty-two groups of organized crime transnational corporation that has been declared a terrorist organization and belligerent non-state actors.

Ecuador Since Monday, it has entered a state of emergency for sixty days, which includes a curfew at night and early in the morning.

Bukele He assured in November 2022, in a message on the social network “the state of exception is a tool, It’s not a magic wand” is that “approve a state of exception without a strategy against terroristsIt’s no use.”

“Governments must understand that the problems They are not resolved by decreebut with actions”, he added at the time.

El Salvador has been under an emergency regime since March 2022, decreed after an increase in homicides attributed to gangs or maras and whose objective is to combat these criminal groups. Also called terrorists.

Within the scope of this measure, which became the main security action of the Government of Bukelemore than 75,100 people were arrested, whom the Government accuses of being gang members or collaborators, and of which more than 7,000 people allegedly abandoned parole.

However, humanitarian organizations note more than 6,000 accident victims, mainly arbitrary arrests, in addition to torture, warrantless searches and incommunicado detention with detainees.

In the context of this regime, the Central American country built the Terrorism Confinement Center (Cecot), cataloged by Bukele like prison “largest in Latin America”.

For your part, Daniel Noboa He confirmed on January 4th that next week the first stone will be laid for the construction of the prisons he offered during the electoral campaign and said that they will be similar to those in Mexico It is The Savior.

“These are prisons that will be ready within ten to eleven months. They will be the same, because it is the same company, with the same design, that made the maximum security prisons in Mexico and that he made them in The Savior”, indicated in a radio interview broadcast by the Presidency.

For all “Bukele lovers”he said in reference to the president of The Savior, Nayib BukeleIt’s a prison “equal, equal. “If they want to go, take a walk, meet her, stay a night, they can go, commit a crime.”he jokingly noted amid laughter from the interviewers.

Source: Elcomercio

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