The president of The Savior, Nayib Bukeleannounced this Saturday that his government deployed 2,000 soldiers and 1,000 police armed with rifles in five neighborhoods of the city of Apopa (north), in search of gang remnants.
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Bukele said in X that they were deployed 2,000 soldiers and 1,000 police, and shared video images of uniformed officers walking through the streets armed with rifles and wearing bulletproof vests. On foot or in police cars, soldiers and police entered the five neighborhoods, where they installed vehicle checkpoints at the entrances to streets and passages.
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For more than two years in The Savior An emergency regime ordered by the president is in force Bukele and with which a “war” against the gangs is promoted. Bukele declared the offensive against gangs on March 27, 2022, after an escalation of 87 homicides in one weekend, under the protection of the questioned emergency regime that allows arrests to be made without a court order.
Since that offensive began, a little more than 80,000 suspected gang members have been arrested, according to authorities. However, human rights groups maintain that many innocent people are among those detained and that the human rights “crisis” may be “perpetuated” in the country.
This offensive against the gangs returned tranquility to the streets, and this increased the popularity of Bukele, who in February was re-elected for a second five-year term.
AFP
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