According to the data provided by the public opinion poll of the University Institute of Public Opinion of the Central American University (Iudop), 66.8 % of the population approves the exception regime and gives it a note of 6.3 (on a scale of 0 to 10).
Iliana Álvarez, director of the iudop, said during the presentation of the results that the exception regime continues “well” evaluated, 37.4 % of the people surveyed He thinks that “other measures must be sought” against violence and crime.
This regime, which has left the capture of more than 85 thousand 900 alleged gang members And of alleged people linked to these structures, he fulfilled on March 27 three years of his implementation amid controversies for supposedly violating human rights.
The measure was approved after The murder of more than 80 people in a weekend at the end of March 2022what investigations of the local medium El Faro indicate that The rupture of a pact between the Bukele government and the criminal gangs.
While the exception regime measure enjoys broad support for its impact on the reduction of violence in the country, it has been questioned not only by thousands of complaints of rights violationsincluding deaths in state custody.
Various analysts consider that the measure has become The main and unique Government’s commitment against gangs and in a mechanism of “permanent – and not temporary – of social control.”
The Amnesty International (AI) organization recently pointed out that the exception regime It is a “tool” to “silence critical voices.”
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