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'Stop killing... or your friends are going to pay for it': El Salvador's president threatens to 'punish' the 16,000 imprisoned MS-13 and Barrio 18 gangsters if spike in murders does not end
2022-03-29
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
  • El Salvador is enduring a fresh wave of gang violence which has seen some 87 people killed since Friday alone

  • President Nayib Bukele has now warned that jailed gang members will 'pay for it' if the murder spike continues

  • There are around 70,000 gang members in the country, many belonging to the notorious MS-13 and Barrio 18
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Posted by:Skidmark

#1  'We confiscated everything, even their sleeping mats, we also rationed their food and now they will no longer see the sun,' Bukele said.

The president's decision was slammed by the former executive secretary of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR), Paulo Abrao.

'Criminal populism: illegalities to confront illegalities. Barbarities to confront barbarities,' he wrote on Twitter.

Bukele immediately responded: 'You at the OAS (Organization of American States) and the IACHR were the ones who sponsored the truce that only strengthened the gangs and allowed them to accumulate resources, money, weaponry.'
Posted by: swksvolFF   2022-03-29 17:14  

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