El Salvador: Bukele announces sending 6,000 soldiers to capture gang members

The president of The Savior, Nayib Bukeleannounced on Sunday that it had sent 6,000 soldiers and police to round up remnants of gangs in the north of the country after the deaths of two people.

“At this time, 5 thousand soldiers and a thousand police surrounded the neighborhoods of San José Cancasque, San Antonio Los Ranchos, Potonic It is Labrador San Isidro to dismantle this clique completely”, wrote the ruler in X.

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He argued that a few days ago “there were two homicides” in that area, about 90 km north of San Salvadorwhere “two culprits“, gang members Neighborhood 18 Sureños.

“We will not stop until we eradicate what little is left of the gangs“, he warned on the social network, where he published a video of the impressive display of uniformed agents organized into squads and two detainees kneeling with their hands handcuffed.

“We will completely clear the area, we will extract every last remnant of gangs”, the Minister of Defense also published in X, René Francis Merino Monroywhen describing the implementation south of the department of Chalatenango.

The Savior For two years he has been living under a state of emergency ordered by Bukele, which led to the arrest of almost 76,000 people without a court order, of which more than 7,000 were released because they were innocent.

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For the gangs, born on the streets of The angels, U.Sthe Salvadoran government attributes around 120,000 homicides to them in almost three decades, exceeding the 75,000 deaths left by twelve years of civil war (1980-1992).

After the end of the war, Salvadorans lived under the terror of gangs MS-13 and your rival Neighborhood 18 with its two factions Southerners It is Revolutionarieswhich together had around 100,000 members.

Human rights organizations criticize the emergency regime because they denounce “arbitrary arrests“,”torture” It is “deaths” in prision.

Source: Elcomercio

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