Under an exceptional regime implemented by President Nayib Bukele’s executive branch, some 1,000 gang leaders have been detained in El Salvador to “fight” the gangs, Justice and Security Ministry head Gustavo said on Friday Villatoro.
The official pointed out during the Face to Face interview program that “the arrest of more leaders is still missing” as, he indicated, “many of them have left the territory” of El Salvador.
Villatoro indicated that “we are working with Costa Rica, Belize, Honduras, Guatemala, Mexico and the United States to get these gang members,” but he did not specify whether they know that gang members have “fled” to those countries. to land.
he added more than 68,500 people accused of being gang members have already been detained during the emergency regime measure, which has been in force in the country for a year.
Authorities attribute the fall in homicides to the emergency regime and the Territorial Control Plan, which, according to official accounts, amounted to 496 in 2022, 57% less than in 2021.
Minister Villatoro recently assured EFE in an interview that the security forces are doing “responsible work” in the context of the emergency regime, “attached to the rule of law” and “to the laws”.
Anyway, Human rights organizations in the Central American country registered at least 5,082 ‘direct victims’ of human rights violations until mid-Marchmainly as a result of arbitrary detentions, under the emergency regime.
Source: Eluniverso
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