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Foreign Secretary Savior, Alexandra Hill delivered a video message today to Human Rights Council UNwhere she defended the ongoing campaign in her country against criminal gangs, which, according
Foreign Secretary Savior, Alexandra Hill delivered a video message today to Human Rights Council UNwhere she defended the ongoing campaign in her country against criminal gangs, which, according to her, turned the country into “the safest in Latin America“.
“El Salvador has moved from being on the list of the world’s most violent countries to becoming, by verifiable figures, the safest in Latin America” thanks to Territorial control planconfirmed by the Minister for Foreign Affairs of El Salvador during the high-level segment that the Council is holding this week in Geneva.
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“Many voices, without knowledge or reason, have spoken out against this huge effort of the country, but the best indicator that we are on the right track are the millions of Salvadorans who approve of the executive’s measures, capturing and expelling more than 64,000 criminalshe added.
“All these decisions made it possible to return conditions to honest and kind Salvadorans Peace and security that every citizen aspires to have,” Hill said, stressing that the second phase of the control plan aims to prevent crime through measures such as creating social opportunities for the young.
“We have restored calm, peace and hope by fighting criminal institutions that so much blood, pain and sorrow has been inflicted on our people for three consecutive decades,” said the chancellor, who defended the state of emergency approved by the National Assembly a year ago to support the campaign.
At the 52nd session of the UN Human Rights Council🇺🇳 heard from Juana Alexandra Hill Tinoco, Minister of Foreign Affairs of El Salvador 🇸🇻#HRC52 pic.twitter.com/fYqpnCD3Et
— UN Human Rights Council 📍#HRC52 (@UN_HRC) March 2, 2023
Hill assured that with the coming to power Naib Bukele In June 2019, the country “began a process of transformation with the well-being of the population and the strengthening of democracy as its banner, which for decades has been based on inequality, exclusion and the privileges of the very few.”
Bukele’s campaign against criminal gangs has been criticized for believing that it has led to abuses by the authorities.
In this sense, the Salvadoran humanitarian organizations and the Office for the Protection of Human Rights (PDDH) received over 7900 complaints violations, most of which involve arbitrary arrests. 
The Salvadoran government has come out in defense of the macro prison, which Bukele said has been criticized by organizations such as Human Rights Watch (HRW), which believes that the center does not comply with international UN rules regarding the treatment of prisoners.
This also raised doubts among international observers. exemption regime introduced in El Salvador in March 2022. to fight a wave of murders, for allegedly giving wings to the outrages of the authorities.
(EFE)
Source: Aristegui Noticias
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