The president of El Salvador, Nayib Bukele, announced Wednesday that “fences in large cities” of the Central American country will be implemented to “extract the remaining gang members” and continue the “war against gangs.”
El Salvador has been under an emergency regime since the end of March, which has been in force for 8 months and suspends various constitutional rights, after a wave of murders that claimed the lives of more than 80 people in three days.
Under the state of emergency measure, more than 58,000 gang members and people linked to these gangs have been captured, according to the Salvadoran president.
However, the president pointed out this Wednesday afternoon that “there are still gang members and we have to go and extract them,” for which he also announced the launch of phase five of the Territorial Control Plan, which includes at least 14,000 military personnel. for measure.
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“Phase five is the phase of extracting the criminals that remain in those communities. There are still gang members and we have to go and extract them,” Bukele said during a public event on the outskirts of San Salvador and in which there was no room for questions from the press.
According to the Salvadoran president, it is about “encircling large cities and carrying out the process of extracting the terrorists who are inside those cities without giving them the chance to escape.”
Said “fences” will begin to be implemented “in the coming days,” he assured.