The president SaviorNaib Bukele, confirmed this Wednesday that 2,000 gang members for a new maximum security prison designed for 40,000 members of these criminal structures and, in the words of the president, “the largest in America.”

“Today, as part of a new operation, we moved the second group of 2,000 gang members to the Terrorism Detention Center (Cecot),” the president wrote on Twitter, adding that “they have already 4,000 gang members live in the most criticized prison in the world“.

Even before Bukele’s publication, the security agencies of the Central American country they did not report the movement of prisoners and details of the transfer are unknown.

The first transmission took place at the end of February, while the relatives of those detained under the state of emergency that has been in effect since the end of March they were mobilized to the outskirts of prisons.

Bukele opened Sekot at the end of January, and Minister of Public Works Romeo Rodriguez told the President that the prison would “become the largest prison in all of America” ​​and that “It would be impossible for the prisoner to get out” housing, which has 23 hectares of construction.

The construction of this prison took place against the backdrop of criticism from the opposition, who pointed out lack of transparency, mainly due to approval in the Legislative Assemblydominated by the ruling party, a law that allowed for circumvention of the usual measures of control in public works.

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In early March, Colombian President Gustavo Petro announced that the maximum security prison it really is a concentration camp.

This statement sparked a series of exchanges between Bukele and Petro on Twitter.

Amnesty International (AI) expressed concern for this new prison in El Salvador, given that “the construction of this new prison could mean the continuation and escalation of these abuses.”

Under the state of emergency imposed in March last year following an escalation of killings, according to official figures, over 65,000 people arrestedwhom the government accuses of being gang members, and of whom more than 3,300 have been released.

Salvadoran humanitarian organizations and the Directorate for the Defense of Human Rights (PDDH) They received more than 7,900 complaints of excesses.most due to arbitrary detentions.

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Despite allegations of human rights violations under the state of emergency and the transfer of prisoners, the President of El Salvador has public approval support 91%, according to a recent poll conducted by the investigative department of the newspaper La Prensa Gráfica. (EFE)