President Gustavo Petro, after launching the corresponding harsh taunts Mega prison set up in El Salvador and to the policies implemented in that country in the last period, Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele responded to the President of Colombia.
(In this context: This was Petro teasing Bukele for the mega prison: ‘Terribles’).
“Mr @petrogustavo, the results outweigh the rhetoric. I hope Colombia really succeeds in lowering the murder rates like we Salvadorans have succeeded. God bless you,” Bukele wrote on Twitter.
This Wednesday, Colombian President Gustavo Petro threw some harsh taunts at Bukele’s policies.
At the expansion ceremony of Francisco José de Caldas Community College, Petro made a comparison about him. El Salvador’s policies and the policies that its government proposes through education.
(Also: Was there an agreement between Nayib Bukele and the gangs to reduce the killings?).
“On the nets you can see the concentration camp in El Salvador, filled with young people, thousands and thousands of prisoners,” said Petro.
And he added: “I think there are people who like to see young people in prisons and believe that is security.”
The Colombian president also noted that Bukele’s policies have boosted popularity, but he said there is another way, pointing to Bogota as a source of pride with its coexistence programs to combat social discrimination. “Education is one of the biggest leaps in Bogota society,” he said.
Regarding the decrease in murders in El Salvador, a result that Bukele emphasized during his government, Gustavo Petro said his counterpart is “proud to lower the murder rate by subduing the gangs in these prisons today, I think Dantesque.” … We’ve accomplished the same thing, reducing the murder and violence rates from colleges and universities, not prisons.”
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Bukele inaugurated Terrorist Containment Center (Cicot)A 23-hectare prison at the end of January. Public Works Minister Romeo Rodríguez told the president it would “be the largest prison in all of America” and “impossible for a prisoner to leave the campus”.
Last Friday, February 24, the Government of El Salvador transferred 2,000 suspected gang members to this new prison with a capacity of approximately 40,000 people. “This will be their new home, where they’ll live in karma for decades before they can do more damage to the population,” Bukele said. Said.
(We recommend: families of prisoners in El Salvador should pay $170 for food and toilet paper).
The construction of this prison took place amid criticism from the opposition, which pointed to a lack of transparency, mainly due to the passing of a law that allows bypassing the usual checks on state affairs in the Legislative Assembly dominated by the ruling party.
At the beginning of February, Amnesty International (AI) expressed concern about this new prison in El Salvador, arguing that “the construction of this new prison could mean a continuation and increase in abuses”.
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