Vean a estos terroristas…
¿Ya no dan miedo verdad?
¡Exacto!
Los criminales no causan ningún temor, una vez que son despojados de la protección del Estado y de los políticos corruptos y organismos internacionales que los financian y los defienden. https://t.co/mq7QDhS0j3
— Nayib Bukele (@nayibbukele) February 26, 2023
Ahead of their arrests, gang members targeted an untold number of innocent people. Many children also found themselves coerced into either joining gangs or experiencing attacks on their families.
Of course, all this comes on top of gangs infamously demanding businesses pay various sums of money or become targets themselves.
Pushback from the outside world
In El Salvador, many of the nation’s residents appreciate Bukele making communities safer. However, critics have gone after the president over the means by which arrests are made. They have also made allegations of innocent people arrested alongside the gangs.
At the end of the day, however, many are of the view that what the El Salvador president is doing remains a net positive. His backers have also stated with the gangs out of the picture, people in El Salvador can live their lives without being in constant fear.
El medio de comunicación oficial del Gobierno de los Estados Unidos dice que estos asesinos, condenados judicialmente por asesinar a miles de salvadoreños, son “presuntos pandilleros”.
¿Por qué defienden pandilleros públicamente? ¿Cuál es su interés en proteger criminales? https://t.co/g5OJW5YrP2
— Nayib Bukele (@nayibbukele) February 25, 2023
On Twitter, Bukele fired back against the critics of his anti-gang efforts. In doing so, the El Salvador president asked why his detractors have such a vested interest in running defense for dangerous and violent criminals.
