[News] "They are concentration camps": Petro condemns Bukele for his prisons in El Salvador

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he president of Colombia, Gustavo Petro, has harshly criticized the recently inaugurated mega-prison that was built in El Salvador to lock up thousands of gang members. The Center for the Confinement of Terrorism (Cecot), as this prison, the largest in the region, was baptized, has triggered several debates over the treatment that prisoners would receive there.

“You can see the terrible photos on the networks. I can't get into other countries, (but) the concentration camp in El Salvador full of young people, thousands and thousands imprisoned, which gives one the chills. I think there are people who like that, without a doubt," Petro said.

The first 2,000 Salvadoran gang members, locked up under the controversial exception regime that was approved by the Salvadoran Congress to try to reduce insecurity, were transferred to Cecot this week. For the Colombian president, there is a problem with people considering that this is a strategy to reduce crime.

“They believe that this is security and po[CENSORED]rity soars. Undoubtedly, we also experience it in Colombia,” Petro said.

The president openly criticized his Salvadoran counterpart, Nayib Bukele, for his strategies to combat security. Petro pointed out that Bukele "feels proud because he reduced the homicide rate by subjugating the gangs that are now in those prisons," but that in his opinion these maneuvers are "dantesque."

“We did the same. We managed to reduce the rate of homicides and violence, not from prisons, but from schools and universities," said the Colombian president.

Hours after President Petro's comment, the Salvadoran president replied.

 

https://www.elespectador.com/mundo/america/son-campos-de-concentracion-petro-reprueba-a-bukele-por-sus-carceles-en-el-salvador-noticias-hoy/