The wave of violence in El Salvador since Friday claimed the lives of 11 more people on Sunday, despite the existence of a state of emergency and the massive capture of alleged gang members, according to the National Civil Police (PNC) this morning.
A total of 87 Salvadorans have been killed on the streets of El Salvador since Friday, with 62 homicides recorded on Saturday alone, the highest number in the country's recent history in a single day.
The authorities have not explained the reasons for this escalation, which is attributed to gangs, mainly to Mara Salvatrucha (MS13).
The PNC reported 576 people arrested “because of the increase in murders”, who as a result of the state of emergency may be under administrative arrest for 15 days and without the right to defense for the 30 days that the extraordinary measure will be in force.
” Almost 600 captures in just TWO days... And the EMERGENCY REGIME lasts 30 days, extendable! And don't think you'll be free,” President Nayib Bukele posted on Twitter Sunday night.
Earlier, Bukele ordered the Director General of Prisons, Osiris Luna, to “again decree maximum emergency in all security and maximum security prisons”, so that “all cells are closed 24/7.”
” Message to the gangs: because of their actions, now their 'homeboys' (companions) will not be able to see a ray of sunshine”, published the president.
Luna responded on Twitter that “immediately the order is fulfilled, these criminals will NOT see the sunlight.”
In previous assassination crises, Bukele has ordered the same measure and it has affected, according to reports from humanitarian organizations, prisoners who do not belong to the gangs.
Luna is one of two officials sanctioned by the US Department of the Treasury for allegedly facilitating and organizing “several secret meetings involving imprisoned gang leaders.”
“These meetings were part of the efforts of the Government of El Salvador to negotiate a secret truce with gang leaders,” the US said in a statement last December.
Bukele also wrote on the aforementioned social network that “if the 'international community' is worried about your little angels, come and bring them food, because I will not take away the budget from schools to feed these terrorists”.
“We are going to ration the same food that is given now and from there the new ones will eat too,” he added.
This is not the first time that a Salvadoran government has sought to combat gangs with mass arrests, in the past former President Francisco Flores (1999-2004) and Elías Antonio Saca (2004-2009) did so with their Hard Hand and Super Hard Hand plans.
This crime crisis occurred at a time when the Government has more than 16,000 soldiers and more than 22,000 police officers involved in security work, and it also has the unconditional support of Parliament, which approved it $109 million for its security plan.
He also has magistrates in the Supreme Court of Justice and the Attorney General, Rodolfo Delgado, who have been close to his administration.
Gangs, a phenomenon regarded as a legacy of the civil war (1980-1992) and strengthened by the deportation of gang members from the United States, have resisted the security plans implemented since their inception in the country.
(with information from EFE)
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