Residents of various communities in the Department of San Vicente, in Savior, protested and rejected this Monday construction “giant” prison for alleged gang members captured during exclusion regime Naib Bukeleintroduced in the country to combat maras.
According to local press reports, residents of the Tecoluca municipality in San Vicente, where the prison facility is to be built, said the project would have “serious” consequences. environmental and social damage.
“This is a project uninvitedwhich does not have the approval of the municipality and which will cause serious environmental, social and industrial damage, such as pollution of rivers, streams and aquifers of which there are communities,” said Marina Diaza representative of the residents, in the video broadcast of local media Printing press.
Executive announcement
President Naib Bukele announced June 22 in Twitter the construction of a “giant” penitentiary center, to which alleged gang members captured during the state of emergency will be delivered.
Then the president indicated that the penitentiary center would “far from the cities, surrounded by hundreds of blocks of state lands, with hundreds of thousands of meters of construction, multiple levels of walls, and 37 watchtowers that will make escape impossible.”
Residents were “responsible” for the mayor of Tekoluka, Nicholas Anthony Garciaand the New Ideas (NI) party, which won a majority in Congress, for “authorizing the construction of said prison” and for the “damage” it could cause.
On July 22, Bukele celebrated in Twitter that there will be a place in the “mega-prison for 40,000 terroristswho will be cut off from the outside world.
This is the only information known about said detention center, as the government it is not reported how much and from where it is financed Job.
El Salvador has been in a state of emergency since the end of March following a wave of killings on the last weekend of March that killed 87 people. In response, the Legislative Assembly approved the suspension of constitutional guarantees to give the executive branch special powers. (EFE)
Source: RPP
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