02/03/2023
The minister of Foreign Relations of El Salvador, Alexandra Hillintervened today through a video message in the UN Human Rights Councilwhere she defended the campaign that is taking place in her country against criminal gangs, which according to her has turned the country into “the safest in Latin America”.
“El Salvador has stopped being on the list of the most violent countries in the world and has become, with verifiable figures, the safest in Latin America”, thanks to the Plan Control Territorialaffirmed the Salvadoran foreign minister in the high-level segment that the Council is holding this week in Geneva.
“Many voices without knowledge or foundation have spoken out against this immense effort of the country, but the best indicator that we are on the right track are the millions of salvadorans who approve the executive’s measureshaving captured and removed more than 64,000 criminals from the communities,” he added.
“All these decisions have made it possible to return to honest and ‘good’ Salvadorans the conditions of peace and security that every citizen aspires to have,” said Hill, who stressed that the second phase of the control plan seeks to prevent crimes through measures such as the generation of social opportunities for young people.
“We have restored tranquility, peace and hope by fighting the criminal institutions that so much bloodpain and mourning caused our people for three consecutive decades,” said the chancellor, who defended the emergency regime approved by the National Assembly for a year to support the campaign.
Hill assured that, with the arrival to the presidency of Nayib Bukele in June 2019, the country “began a transformation process with the well-being of the population and the strengthening of democracy as its bannerwhich for decades was anchored by inequality, exclusion and the privileges of very few”.
Bukele’s campaign against criminal gangs has received criticism for considering that it has led to abuses by the authorities.
In this sense, Salvadoran humanitarian organizations and The Office for the Defense of Human Rights (PDDH) have received more than 7,900 complaints of abusesthe majority due to arbitrary detentions.
Alexandra Hill has been the Minister of Foreign Affairs of El Salvador since 2019, when Nayib Bukele took office as president of the Central American country. PHOTO: TAKEN FROM @CancillerAleHT’S TWITTER