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The president SaviorNaib Bukele opened a Terrorist Detention Center on Tuesday without press access, with a capacity of 40,000 people. gang members and whose construction has begun in the context of the exclusion regime in force since March.
On the national media network, the government bukele released a video showing the President taking a tour of the prison with a group of officials.
The secretariat’s public relations spokesman confirmed to the EFE news agency that the prison was opened by this visit.
On July 21 last year, the president said in a tweet on Twitter that the prison “will have room for 40,000 terrorists who will be cut off from the outside world,” without knowing the cost of the work.
bukele has made fighting gangs one of her main government mantras, to the point where she no longer hesitates to classify Savior as “the safest country in America” as a result of the declining homicide rate.
“How did we do it? Put criminals in jail. Is there a place? Yes now,” the president said in a series of tweets in which he assured that the inmates of this new terrorist detention center were not and would not be unable to run away and “give orders from within”. “The Work of Common Sense”.
The El Salvadorian government has defended these institutions from criticism from organizations such as Human Rights Watch (HRW), which believe the center does not comply with international UN rules for the treatment of prisoners. The state of emergency imposed in El Salvador in March 2022 to deal with a wave of killings due to the authorities allegedly inspiring atrocities has also raised doubts among international observers.
“Severe Mode”
The high-security prison, whose cost was not disclosed, was built on a 166-hectare site, 23 of which have a dozen pavilions, according to Public Works Minister Romeo Rodriguez.
It has reinforced concrete walls, cells with steel bars on the windows, security cameras everywhere, a full body scanner for those who enter, seven watchtowers, and an electrified perimeter wall 11 meters and 2.1 kilometers high that will be guarded by day and night. at night. at night 600 soldiers and 250 policemen.
Guards armed with pistols and machine guns will keep an eye on the prisoners. The electronic equipment will block cell phone signals, preventing communication from the prison.
“All terrorists who have planned mourning and pain against the Salvadoran people will serve their sentences in CECOT, in the most severe regime,” said Vice Minister of Justice and Public Security Osiris Luna.
bukele said that in the previous governments of El Salvador “there were gang members [presos] with prostitutes, [equipos de] PlayStation, with screens, with mobile phones, with computers […]rewarding the offender.”
The gangs devoted themselves mainly to extorting huge sums of money from merchants, businessmen and transporters, as well as contract killings and drug retailing.
always locked up
On examination bukele cells measuring approximately six by four meters, with three metal bunk beds for a total of nine beds, two sinks and two toilets.
Authorities have not specified how many prisoners each cell will occupy.
There are also dark, windowless “punishment cells” to punish prisoners for misbehavior, who, according to Luna, “won’t see the sunlight.”
The prison has canteens, lounges, a gym and ping-pong tables, but only for guards, as well as workshops for prisoners.
There are also rooms for virtual court hearings. “There is no way to go out with some order to the court,” Luna said.
“It’s a shame”
Until now, the government is keeping a secret when the first of the nearly 63,000 detained gang members will begin to be transferred to a mega-prison, but it is believed that this will happen very soon.
The mass arrests, criticized by human rights groups, are protected under a state of emergency that allows arrests to be made without a warrant. It was approved by Congress at the behest bukele in response to an escalation in killings that claimed the lives of 87 people from 25 to 27 March.
A poll conducted this Wednesday by CIG-Gallup found that 90% of Salvadorans rate leadership bukele. (According to EFE, AFP and Europapress)
Source: RPP
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