President Nayib Bukele vowed to step up its ‘war on gangs’ even as 2% of the country’s population is jailed
On Tuesday, the millennial populist announced he would intensify the clampdown after the trio of officers were killed during a shootout in Santa Ana, a city 42 miles north-west of the capital, San Salvador.
“If we stop now they’ll regroup … and it will become impossible to eradicate this cancer from our country.” “The reality is that in El Salvador it is now a crime to be young. You’re not safe anywhere,” the wife of one prisoner, Mari Hernández, told the Guardian during a visit to San Salvador last month.
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