The president made these comments in a video message attributed to the government and reproduced in Diario El Salvador.
In the material distributed on social networks, the president warns that there are politicians who want everything to go back to the way it was before.
He recalled the reality that the country experienced a few years ago with violence caused by gangs and highlighted the change that El Salvador is currently experiencing.
“Remember this? Just a few years ago, we lived in our communities as prisoners of gang members. “We lived in prison, in fear, at the mercy of their criminal whims,” explained the message published in a video and reviewed by the newspaper.
“Now they are in prison and will remain there for decades until they pay for all their crimes,” the message said.
“But there are politicians and opponents who want to give them the freedom to return to the past… Will you allow that?” he adds.
Recently, academic and researcher Óscar Picardo, director of the Institute of Science, Technology and Innovation at Francisco Gavidia University, addressed the problem of media manipulation in the government message in statements to Prensa Latina.
In the Legislative Assembly, MPs from various political groups expressed doubts about the current security policy for months and did not support it, arguing that every prisoner should have the right to due process.
It is legitimate, but no one is talking about giving gang members freedom; they have to pay the debt determined by the judiciary, the comments say.
Today, Bukele is far from the president who promised reintegration programs. The current Bukele promises that people convicted of gang membership will “never see the light of day again,” suggest various approaches.
On the other hand, the concealment of information about people deprived of their liberty has reached such an extent that there are families who identify their relatives in mass graves because, according to local media, the state never informed them that they died during their detention are reports.
However, on September 15, the government announced a new phase of its security plan, the so-called Territorial Control Plan, the sixth called “Reinsertion,” which could change existing perceptions about whether there is a possibility of release for suspected gang members. if they do so they will be found guilty. Follow due process.
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