This Tuesday, the proposal was presented by the Minister of Justice and Security, Gustavo Villatoro, to the President of the Legislative Forum, Ernesto Castro, for debate and approval in plenary.
The ordinance is considered an essential tool in reducing violence and crime, remnants of which still exist in the country, and which allowed the homicide rate to drop to 0.67 during its application. In February of this year it was 1.8 per 100,000 inhabitants.
On the subject, Defense Minister René Francis Merino Monroy said Tuesday that while the initiative has been put into practice, there have been 294 days without a murder and there have been 132 zero days nationwide so far this year.
For his part, Villatoro assured that a series of reforms would be presented to increase penalties for organized crime offenses and order trials for gang members detained under the emergency regime.
This measure was approved on March 27, 2022 at the request of the executive branch and in response to a weekend of more than 80 murders across the country attributed to gangs and thanks to its continued expansion, more than 71,000 suspected criminals and accomplices have been arrested.
In his statements, Merino Monroy emphasized that the security environment favors not only the local population but also foreigners, which could be confirmed by more than five thousand people who arrived in the country during the celebrations of the XXIV Central American Sports Games and were able to touch these advances with your hand.
Along with requests for the measure to be extended, there are reports today of the arrest of a new member of Mara Salvatrucha’s (MS-13) National Headquarters, a position called Sillas, which consists of 15 people.
The subject, named Manuel Alfredo Herrera Durán, alias Kalifa, Dember or Necio, from the Vatos Locos clique of the MS-13, was arrested by the National Civil Police (PNC) in the El Calvario neighborhood, San Isidro, Cabañas.
The prisoner is on trial for blaming himself for the nationwide spike in homicides that took place from November 2021 to March 2022.
This gang member is one of the keys and a member of the Paracentral Zone. He caused grief and suffering to dozens of Salvadorian families, but years in prison awaited him, the defense minister said.
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