Posted on 08/20/2022 5:43:03 AM PDT by Libloather
El Salvador has arrested some 50,000 suspected gang members since President Nayib Bukele launched a 'war' in March on criminal groups terrorizing the country, the head of the country's police force announced Tuesday.
The country plans to house 40,000 of the arrested alleged gang members in a new 'mega prison' that is currently being constructed.
El Salvador declared a 30-day state of emergency in March following a spate of gang killings, giving officials special powers to clamp down on criminal groups who engage in extortion and drug trafficking, and wage turf wars against each other.
On Tuesday, El Salvador's Congress extended these powers by an additional 30 days for the fifth time since they were first enacted.
'We can inform the Salvadoran people that we have already reached 50,000 recorded detentions during the period of the emergency regime,' said Mauricio Arriaza, director of the National Civil Police.
Arriaza, as well as Justice Minister Gustavo Villatoro and Defence Minister Rene Merino appeared Tuesday at parliament to request another extension of the emergency powers, which have done away with the need for arrest warrants.
They were first enacted in March and have been prolonged by the legislature on a month-by-month basis ever since.
The 84-seat unicameral assembly agreed Tuesday night to grant the government's newest request to maintain the decree, with 66 members voting in favour of an extension through mid-September.
The small Central American country has also increased sentences for gang membership five-fold, to up to 45 years.
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Sucks to be a gang banger tHere- as it should be.
make it open air
let them kill each other
they skin people alive
they have done it in the US
The Democrats already have plans to ship them do United States on buses right before the election.
The Democrats already have plans to ship them do United States on buses right before the election.
They chopped up some 13 y/o kids in Long Island where my SIL’s sister teaches.
They’re the most brutal gang I have ever heard of.
Additionally, the word mara means gang in Caliche and is taken from marabunta, the name of a fierce type of soldeir ant. “Salvatrucha” is a combination of Salvadorain and trucha, a Caliche word for being alert, usually entailing preparedness for crime or abuse from police
the spelling errors are from the Urban Dictionary
I have no problem taking out the gangs, good for them if that is legit intent. Sadly due to politics, it goes beyond that, hope that I’m wrong. There are all adults on this room that have some history and perspective. Time will tell, the media will lie. Then in time the truth comes out. Yet no one has covered the murders of white south African farmers by blacks to steal their property. WTH is up with that?
This is such a novel idea . Let’s do it.
Melanin is Teflon.
the LEFT is why we cannot have nice things
I think we are being fooled. The hellish prison they have in mind is north of the border. Biden probably pays them for the worst kind they can ship.
choot-em...
I assume the rules of engagement during the roundup are harsh.
Gosh - I guess Kamala failed to find the reason so many flee that and other Central American countries to come to the US.
The president there got the equivalent of a formal declaration of war and used that to simply round them up. In a country where cops, prison guards, judges, politicians were all afraid or corrupted by the gangs, it was the only way.
A big change was to take control of the prisons away from the gangs, they cannot communicate with the outside world which means they can’t run the gangs from inside anymore. And there is no one left to run, they are all either behind bars or in hiding.
Of course the gangs made it easy by tattooing themselves with easily identifiable gang tattoos. That, and they can just check your cell phone contact list. Easy. And at this points ordinary people aren’t afraid to turn them in anymore.
So El Salvador has gone in a short time from being the most dangerous country on Planet Earth times three to being the safest in Latin America with a murder rate of zero.
The president’s ambition there was to turn the country from being a place to escape from to being a place people would want to live in. It’s happening.
As you can imagine, the leftists, the Soros NGOs, and the US State Department are not happy.
Good post. Paul Ryan is a globalist traitor! People like him think they’ll live in their secure, gated communities with an army of 3rd worlders to tend to their yards and gardens and prepare their meals while the rest of the population suffers and struggles. People like Paul Ryan are the ultimate evil.
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