This was stated by the President of El Salvador, Naib Bukele. More than 2 thousand “gang members” transported to the country’s maximum security prison called the Terrorist Detention Center (Cecot), which houses 40,000 members of these criminal networks and which, according to the president, is “The largest in America.”

The President published in X that members of these gangs were transferred from prisons located in Izalco (west), Ciudad Barrio (east) and San Vicente (centre).

He assured that in Chekota “They will pay for the crimes they committed against our people; cut off from the outside world, with no way to get out or order crimes from prison.”

Before Bukele’s publication, security authorities in the Central American country did not report the incident. prisoner movement and the details of this translation are unknown.

The president did not specify how many gang members there are. penitentiary center, 23 ha and which was opened at the end of January last year.

This will be the third time gang members have moved to Sekot. The first occurred at the end of February last year, and the second shortly after that in March.

The construction of this prison came amid criticism from the opposition, which pointed to a lack of transparency, mainly due to the approval by the ruling party-dominated Legislative Assembly of a law that allowed skip normal controls at government jobs.

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The construction of infrastructure took place as part of the project. exception mode introduced from March 2022 to combat gangs after an escalation in killings that killed more than 80 people in three days, and which was extended 26 times for periods of 30 days at the request of the government.

According to official data, in this context there are more 80 thousand arrestsof these, more than 7 thousand people were released on parole.

The government attributes much of the reduction of violence.

Humanitarian organizations received more 6 thousand complaints about human rights violations in this context, mainly due to arbitrary detentions, torture and short-term disappearances.

The measure, which managed to highlight the decline in homicides that began in 2016 under previous administrations, is widely popular and has become Bukele’s main banner for his immediate re-election, despite the fact that it is prohibited by the Constitution.

(EFE)