The Legislative Assembly of El Salvadordominated by the official party New Ideas (Ni), approved on Thursday, July 3, the number forty of the exception regime, which suspends constitutional guarantees in the “War against gangs” of the Nayib Bukele Government.
The extension of the measure, in force since March 2022 and that, according to various analysts, has also been used to try to silence critical voices, was approved with 57 votes of 60 deputies, all of NI and its allies.
The legislative body justified the extension of the extent to which “during the recent period of the exception regime, police intelligence work has confirmed the persistence of criminal activities by the gangs They seek to maintain their operability. “
“Reorganization attempts have been identified through the recruitment of new members, the coordination of illicit activities such as the drug traffic and the extortionthe use of collaborators networks to sustain their operations in urban and rural areas, “says the approved legislative decree.
This extension implies that the right to defense of detainees, the inviolability of telecommunications and the maximum administrative detention of three days, which passes to fifteen, will continue to be suspended for 30 days.
He Exception regimethat the date leaves more than 87 thousand 100 captures, was approved after murder of more than 80 people in a weekend at the end of March 2022, which investigations of the local medium El Faro indicate that it was given by the breakdown of a pact between the government and the criminal bands.
This extraordinary measure has become the only bet of the Government against gangswhat also won the president Bukele His immediate re -election for a second term, despite the Constitutional prohibitionand that maintains high approval between Salvadorans.
Meanwhile, various humanitarian organizations have received more than 6,400 complaints of Human Rights Violationsmainly for arbitrary arrests and torture, and report about 415 deaths of detainees in state custody, most with signs of violence, as they have denounced.