In a country where thousands disappeared during the civil war of the 1980s, and thousands more vanished during a surge in gang violence that began in 2014, the arrests have prompted the kind of frantic search that for some Salvadorans feels familiar.
“We have no record of your son in the system,” the officer told Monterosa. He called the next woman in line.“How is it that my son can just be lost?” she asked. “How do you arrest someone and then just have no record of it?”Bukele, a prolific user of social media, has posted videos of prisoners being handcuffed and herded into prison halls, where hundreds were sandwiched together for a photo op.
, a controversial approach pursued by previous Salvadoran presidents. The U.S. Treasury Department said last year that Bukele’s administration “provided financial incentives to Salvadoran gangs MS-13 and 18th Street Gang to ensure that incidents of gang violence and the number of confirmed homicides remained low.”U.S. accuses El Salvador of cutting secret deal with MS-13 to tamp down killings
The State Department, concerned about the state of emergency, urged El Salvador last week “to protect its citizens while also upholding civil liberties, including freedom of the press.”“Yes, we got support from the U.S. government to fight crime, but [that] was UNDER THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION,” he tweeted. “You are only supporting the gangs and their ‘civil liberties’ now.
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