{"id":8798,"date":"2024-08-30T07:10:17","date_gmt":"2024-08-30T11:10:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/latinamericasecurityreport.com\/?p=8798"},"modified":"2024-08-30T07:10:17","modified_gmt":"2024-08-30T11:10:17","slug":"el-salvador-president-nayib-bukele-says-security-sustainable-without-a-state-of-emergency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/latinamericasecurityreport.com\/?p=8798","title":{"rendered":"El Salvador President Nayib Bukele Says Security Sustainable Without a State of Emergency"},"content":{"rendered":"
El Salvador\u2019s President Nayib Bukele gives a speech during the inauguration of an industrial data center in Ciudad Arce, El Salvador, July 16, 2024. (AP Photo\/Salvador Melendez, File)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Nearly 2\u00bd years into a state of emergency that has suspended key civil liberties in El Salvador, President Nayib Bukele<\/a><\/span> says the security advances achieved are sustainable without what was supposed to be a temporary measure.<\/p>\n

Each month, El Salvador\u2019s congress, which is comfortably controlled by Bukele\u2019s New Ideas party and its allies, approves another extension of the state of emergency. The justification from officials is that more needs to be done to eliminate the country\u2019s once-powerful street gangs.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn the near future, we hope to lift the state of exception, return to normal constitutional processes, and maintain the peace we\u2019ve achieved through regular judicial and law enforcement activities,\u201d Bukele told Time magazine in an interview published Thursday.<\/p>\n

More than 81,000 people have been arrested and jailed without due process. Human rights organizations have denounced deaths in custody<\/a><\/span> of people and many arrests of people without gang ties. But improved security has changed people\u2019s lives in El Salvador after years of living under the thumb of gangs<\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n

In the interview, Bukele put some numbers on the path to lifting the suspension of some civil liberties, including access to a lawyer, being allowed to gather and to be informed of one\u2019s rights.<\/p>\n

The president said his administration estimated there were 8,000 to 9,000 gang members left, noting that some of those may have fled the country. Once there were only 3,000 or 4,000, Bukele said the gangs wouldn\u2019t be able to muster enough people to re-form.<\/p>\n

Bukele is very active on social platforms and has an extensive communications team to get out his message, but rarely sits for interviews.<\/p>\n

Bukele also said that he would not seek reelection to a third consecutive term. El Salvador\u2019s constitution bars reelection, but Bukele received a favorable interpretation<\/a><\/span> from the Supreme Court in 2021 that cleared the way for his reelection in February.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have an agreement with my wife that this is my last term,\u201d he said in the interview.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Nearly 2\u00bd years into a state of emergency that has suspended key civil liberties in El Salvador, President Nayib Bukele says the security advances achieved are sustainable without what was supposed to be a temporary measure. Each month, El Salvador\u2019s congress, which is comfortably controlled by Bukele\u2019s New Ideas party and its allies, approves another extension of…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":124,"featured_media":8799,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/dims.apnews.com\/dims4\/default\/e359624\/2147483647\/strip\/true\/crop\/3779x2516+0+2\/resize\/820x546!\/format\/webp\/quality\/90\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fassets.apnews.com%2F04%2Fc2%2F733ab6bbf45bd967750fbaa9a0cf%2Fd7b3cb40656140b7933d01e0b9736fdc","fifu_image_alt":"Auto Draft","footnotes":""},"categories":[182],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-security-public-safety"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/latinamericasecurityreport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8798","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/latinamericasecurityreport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/latinamericasecurityreport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/latinamericasecurityreport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/124"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/latinamericasecurityreport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8798"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/latinamericasecurityreport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8798\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8800,"href":"https:\/\/latinamericasecurityreport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8798\/revisions\/8800"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/latinamericasecurityreport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/latinamericasecurityreport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/latinamericasecurityreport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/latinamericasecurityreport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}