Meanwhile in El Salvador…

[Sean Hayden]

Human rights crisis in El Salvador ‘deepening’

Reducing gang violence by replacing it with state violence cannot be a success,” said Amnesty’s Americas director Ana Piquer in a statement. The Salvadoran government had adopted “disproportionate measures”, she said, denying, minimising and concealing human rights violations.

Bukele launched his war on gangs in March 2022, slashing homicides to the lowest rate in three decades after imposing a state of emergency that suspended the need for arrest warrants and the right to a fair trial, among other civil liberties. Prison overcrowding currently stands at 148 percent, according to Amnesty.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/3/2 ... ng-amnesty

Elements of the left are always there to tell you how badly you’re doing solving a problem they’ve got no solutions for. What’s it like being surrounded by criminal activity and violence 24/7? What’s even a brief reprieve worth?

[Strontium Dog]

It would be easy to be turned off by his politics, but he's incredibly popular because people can now simply go about their business without worrying about being mugged or killed, and El Salvador is now one of the safest countries in the Americas. At the end of the day, people tend to place a high priority on their security.

I think the people who are to blame are the ones who allowed the situation to get so bad in the first place.

[Sean Hayden]

El Salvador President Nayib Bukele says security sustainable without a state of emergency

Nearly 2½ years into a state of emergency that has suspended key civil liberties in El Salvador, President Nayib Bukele says the security advances achieved are sustainable without what was supposed to be a temporary measure.

Each month, El Salvador’s congress, which is comfortably controlled by Bukele’s New Ideas party and its allies, approves another extension of the state of emergency. The justification from officials is that more needs to be done to eliminate the country’s once-powerful street gangs.

“In the near future, we hope to lift the state of exception, return to normal constitutional processes, and maintain the peace we’ve achieved through regular judicial and law enforcement activities,” Bukele told Time magazine in an interview published Thursday.

https://apnews.com/article/el-salvador- ... 0eb6b2ce00

[macdoc]

That was quote the informative world tour Sean

[Sean Hayden]

A much needed respite from all things US.

[pErvinalia]

All Things Bukele: Is It Over Yet?