El Salvador President Mass Incarerates 10s of Thousands of Gang Members
Murder Rate in El Salvador Plunging. Bukele's Approval Rate At 91%. Human Rights Groups Complain
From NewsNation:
Two thousand suspected gang members have been moved to a new mega-prison in El Salvador, built as part of President Nayib Bukele’s self-proclaimed “war on crime.”
“This will be their new home, where they won’t be able to do any more harm to the population,” Bukele wrote on Twitter.
Bukele shared photos and videos over the weekend showing barefoot, tattooed men hunched over and packed tightly together. The prisoners are seen with shaved heads being led into the facility in shackles.
“They’re not scary anymore are they?” Bukele tweeted Saturday. “Criminals do not cause any fear, once they are deprived of the protection of the State and the corrupt politicians and international organizations that finance and defend them.”
The video below is from Reuters:
The mega-prison, officially called the Center for the Confinement of Terrorism (CECOT), was built to hold 40,000 prisoners. Bukele unveiled the center in January, saying it is “a fundamental piece to completely win the war against gangs.”
The prisoners transferred to the CECOT are reportedly members of the MS-13 and 18th street gangs, who gained strongholds in El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras after getting deported from Los Angeles.
Human rights organizations are arguing Salvadoran forces have committed “widespread human rights violations” since a state of emergency was announced last year in March.
“Salvadoran security forces have battered vulnerable communities with widespread human rights violations in the name of public safety,” said Juanita Goebertus, Americas Division director at Human Rights Watch in a statement.
Last year, Bukele asked Congress to approve a state of emergency after the country saw a spike in homicides attributed to gang violence.
The emergency state temporarily suspended some constitutional protections and has been extended several times since, according to Reuters.
Arrests can be made without a warrant, private communications are accessible by the government and detainees no longer have the right to a lawyer. Reuters reported more than 64,000 suspects have been arrested under the new policies.
The U.S. still has somewhere between 30,000 and 50,000 gang members belonging to the MS-13 and 18th street gangs living across 20 states.
Murder Rates Are Plunging
From El Salvador Info: Once the Highest Murder Rate in the world, with Bukele’s crackdown, murder rates are plunging.
Between January 1 and March 12, 2023, the Salvadoran National Police registered 29 homicides for a 0.4 daily rate. It is 84.6% less than the 188 recorded in the same 2022 period. At the current rate, El Salvador could close the year with 149 homicides, for a rate of 2.4 homicides per 100,000 inhabitants. Furthermore, this year El Salvador has achieved 51 days with zero homicides.
El Salvador homicide rate in 2022 was 1.4 per day or 7.8 homicides per 100,000 inhabitants. The Salvadoran government reported that 2022 closed with 495 murders, a reduction of 56.84% compared to 2021. 2022 ended as the safest year in Salvadoran history since the end of the civil war.
Prior years murder rates:
Now this is the way to handle these piece of shit MS-13 And the ones affiliated with them!!! Look at their faces all tattooed up RUINED, FOR-LIFE.” even if some of these guys definitely turn their lives around, who would want to hire them just by the way they look.
I’m being serious who would? Maybe just maybe in Construction? Be it residential and or, commercial?? seeing as how El Salvador is not built on our level when it comes to construction. I don’t see that happening.
This is one of the countries that I have been to back when I went to Sea 🌊 for my career. In fact, we pulled into, these Ports, Port of El Cuco / Port of Intepuca / Port of La Union /
Port of La Libertad. And we went in and out of these 4 ports several different times over my career.
And one of the things that was so vivid to me about the country was it truly is a place of haves, and have Nots. No middle class. What-so-ever. Back then I was seeing guys tattooed in the faces like that even in those days they just didn’t come up to America very often. Not like today.
Today, there is no downside for them coming to the border. This is what needs to be done in our country. But if they tried it here mass incarceration for drug pushers, everybody and his brother on the left would be screaming for left-wing lawyers to represent them.
You bet I will be putting this on, FACEBOOK / GETTR / TRUTH-SOCIAL!!!