The police at El Salvador has arrested 50,000 people since the “war on gangs“, five months ago, by president Naguib Bukele.
“We reached the number of 50,000 arrested during the state of exception,” said the country’s police director, Mauricio Arias. They have also been confiscated 1,283 firearms and over a million dollars in cash.
The measure, as reported by APE-MPE, was adopted at the end of March, after wave of 87 murders which was attributed to gangs, the so-called “maras”. It allows the police in particular to proceed to arrests without warrants. It has been extended every month since then by parliament, which is controlled by President Bukele’s New Ideas party.
In total, some 66,000 suspected members of the “maras”, the two largest of which are MS-13 and Barrio 18, are currently imprisoned in El Salvador, which already held 16,000 alleged criminals before the state of exception was declared.
To deal with the skyrocketing prison population, President Bukele ordered to build a giant prison of 40,000 places in the central part of the country, which is expected to open at the end of the year.
The anti-crime campaign launched by the president and promoted through social media gave himpopularity-record in the Central American state with 6.5 million inhabitants. But non-governmental organizations, such as Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch in particular, denounce arbitrary arrestsdeaths of many prisoners at the hands of the authorities and others human rights violations.
Source: News Beast
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