A shocking report released Tuesday by the bilingual conservative publication El American accused Salvadoran President Nayiba Bukele of dealing with the country’s biggest gangs to falsify homicide statistics, but was stopped abruptly when Bukele ordered a series of arrests of prominent gang members.
Bukele’s alleged bargains with gangs such as Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13) were the subject of media reports such as El Salvador. El Faro newspaper; In addition to the increase in other violent crimes in March, allegations that the deal has been broken, leading to an increase in murders, are new.
Bukele, an avid social media user who positions himself as a tech-savvy millennial and the first world leader to take a selfie while addressing the UN General Assembly, did not respond to the report at press time, but posted it on Twitter. It documents the statistical drop in El Salvador’s murder rate on Monday.
In a report released Monday, El American’s Orlando Avendaño argued that Bukele carried out this fall by asking gangs to cover up their murders by digging graves that were not disclosed by the government in order to officially document their killings as “disappearances”.
“He succeeded for no apparent reason, and El Salvador, a traditionally violent country with a rich history of gang warfare, began recording days without a single murder,” Avendaño said. Said. “No one understood what happened because Bukele bragged about it on his Twitter account,” he said.
Citing both official and unofficial Salvadoran journalists, the Avendaño report provides evidence that Bukele covered up the country’s very high murder rate by causing gangs to disappear.
“About 200 people are missing in El Salvador during 2020. By the end of 2021, this number has doubled. The state pretended to be looking for them, but several times the relatives of the missing said that no one was helping them. “In February of this year, the police discovered some mass graves.”
“They were reported missing, not murdered,” Cesar Reyes, a conservative Salvadoran lawmaker, told El American. “Then, at the end of March this year, they started counting the murders.”
“What’s happening is that criminal groups have hidden graves so that the government doesn’t see these deaths as murders,” he said.
In March, the death toll soared overnight after Bukele declared war on violent gangs in the country with alleged 600 arrests a day and declared a month-long state of emergency that stripped the country of freedom of association and allowed the government to spy on any citizen. private messages. Bukele announced that he would ration food rations for the prisoners and warned human rights activists that “if the international community is worried about their angels, they should go and get them food, because I won’t get public money to feed them from schools.” These are terrorists.”
A month later, the El Salvador legislature approved an increase in funding for new prisons. Bukele controls the Legislative Assembly.
After months of low homicide rates (near zero) in history, El Salvador today recorded its most violent weekend in decades, with 87 people killed between March 25 and March 27. years,” says El American. “On March 26 alone, 62 people died. The bloodiest day in the recent history of a small country in Central America.
El Salvador recorded 79 murders during the month of February.
It refers to reports from: El FaroEl American noted that MS-13 members anonymously confirmed that they had a deal with the government, and that Bukele unilaterally violated it by mass arresting the gang members. Said an anonymous member El Faro He said government officials invited gang members to a meeting to discuss the strategy, and then arrested gang leaders in the area.
“They didn’t fit. They take over when not needed. They said, “Go to that place, we’ll talk,” but instead they took it,” said the MS-13 participant.
Bukele bragged about El Salvador’s lower homicide rate on Twitter Monday, the same day the El American report was published.
Sharing an animated graphic showing El Salvador’s loss in the ranking, Bukele said, “The murder rate per 100,000 people in the world’s most dangerous countries… From 1991 to 2021.”
“This is how they got our country, and that’s how our government started to change since it was formed,” Bukele wrote. “And now, things are getting better in #warongan. We will continue… “
The murder rate per 100,000 people in the world’s most dangerous countries…
From 1991 to 2021.
This is how our country has become and this is how it has been changing since we formed our government.
yes, with #GuerraContraPandillaseverything is getting much better.
Segimos pic.twitter.com/10UqbbHzmr
– Nayib Bukele (@nayibbule) 13 June 2022
Much of Bukele’s Twitter feed now focuses on photos of alleged weapons seized from gangs, armored vehicles allegedly recently purchased by the government for “#warongangs”, and other propaganda aimed at demonstrating the seriousness of the government’s gang violence at its core.
“There’s more, but I’ll show you later,” Bukele wrote on Sunday, and shared a video of the armored vehicles allegedly added to the government as armored vehicles.
Phase 1, 3 and 4 without del #PlanControlRegionIt is IMPOSSIBLE to have the results we achieved in the series #GuerraContraPandillas
Did they like YAGU?
Well, SandCat is already on the way…
And then they go in another direction, but these are the signs there pic.twitter.com/EFV3gD3Qbi
– Nayib Bukele (@nayibbule) 12 June 2022
Bukele remains famous. A Universidad Francisco Gavidia poll released at the end of May showed that 72.23 percent of Salvadorans would vote for Bukele’s re-election. A poll published by La Prensa Gráfica on June 1 showed that Bukele had an 87% approval rating and a 9% disapproval rating. America. An unidentified journalist, who expressed his concerns about the gang’s censorship of his news for Al America, admitted that he had voted for Bukele.
Bukele began his political career as part of the socialist Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front (FMLN). The party fired him in 2017 for allegedly verbally abusing a woman at the party after months of tension and for allegedly continuing to criticize Bukele’s party. The New Idea party tries to avoid identification with any ideology, instead advocating vague populism against corruption, but Bukele uses his power to bring El Salvador closer to communist countries like China and discredits the United States. Bukele had a close relationship with President Donald Trump, as the two shared a goal to prevent Salvadorans from leaving the country – to reduce immigration to the United States and bring human capital to El Salvador.
Bukele ignored last week’s Summit of the Americas, which took place in Los Angeles, by making a mockery of it on Twitter. determined joined the Organization of American States (OAS), which hosted the summit, as the “Washington Colonial Office”.
Source: Breitbart
