In El Salvador, a small Central American state where a “war” has been waged against organized crime since the spring of 2022, an average of one person disappears every day, non-governmental organizations announced yesterday, Wednesday 8/21, citing data from the prosecution authorities that they studied . The attorney general’s office counted 366 missing persons in the twelve months to May 31 this year, explained the Working Group for the Disappeared in El Salvador, a collective of NGOs. El Salvador’s government, for its part, boasts that it has gone 650 days without “any” killings since President Naguib Bukele, who took office in 2019, declared “war” on gangs in March 2022. Following a spate of killings that month, President Bukele declared a state of emergency, deploying the military at home and curtailing constitutional rights. Under the so-called “state of exception”, a huge maximum security prison was built and group trials were held. The young head of state secured enormous popularity thanks to her improvement […]
Source: News Beast
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