Nayib Bukele, elected president of El Salvador in 2019, leads a repressive policy against gangs with nearly 66,000 arrests.
To carry it out, the state of emergency was voted in March 2022 and was renewed for the twelfth time on March 16, 2023. It had been established after a wave of 87 assassinations attributed to the "Maras", the gangs who
spread
the terror in the country.
Christophe Ventura, research director at IRIS and specialist in Latin America, tells Le
Figaro
the underside of this draconian security policy.
THE
FIGARO.
- What does the state of emergency, renewed for the twelfth time in a year, provide for?
Christophe VENTURA. -
Quite simply, to give full powers to the police and the army to proceed to the arrest of anyone suspected, without preliminary investigation or particular warrant.
Everyone can therefore be arrested or imprisoned.
This policy, led by Nayib Bukele, has made El Salvador the country with the highest incarceration per capita, since around 2% of its…
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