A group of women with a month-old baby improvise a space with plastic to cover themselves from the sun, from the rain, rest and sleep on the sidewalk, in front of a prison in El Salvador. They, like thousands of people, are waiting for their relatives, arrested under the emergency regime decreed since March 27, to be released.
a delicate humanitarian situation is registered in the surroundings of the penitentiary centers of The Savior, where thousands of people form a long line while waiting to receive a response from the La Esperanza Penal Center, better known as Mariona, regarding their loved ones.
As confirmed by the local media The lighthouse, during the night a lot people camp precariously outside the site.
In the area it is unusual for someone to go out and give some information about the thousands of people held under the Exception Regime who is about to turn two months and which has left more than 30,000 captured.
The regime was decreed at the request of Nayib Bukele during the weekend of March 26, when 87 personas were killed by the Mara Salvatrucha-13.
This, in an alleged revenge against the Government after, according to audios revealed by El Faro, the Bukele administration broke off the negotiationss that they had held since 2019.
Local media assert that the thousands of arrests during the regime have been the government’s reaction to its failed negotiations with MS-13.
Many people arrive from the interior of the country, they are peasants, housewives, poor people looking for their children. In some cases, they have had to resort to loans to move.
The crisis in El Salvador has the face of a woman
On the other hand, it was indicated that there are people in prison who had never traveled to a place, where peasants with minimum wages wait outside the prison and jails.
It should be noted that the Exception Regime in El Salvador allows anyone can be captured. This is if the policeman or soldier on duty suspects that he may have ties to a gang.
It is because of this that hundreds of women remain outside some prisons in the Central American country A relative awaits release.
Mothers, grandmothers, sisters, aunts, life partners or guardians They have spent days or weeks on the street in front of the La Esperanza prison.
On stage you can also see young mothers carrying month-old babies, and others changing their children’s diapers or feeding them.
“If they take them out (the detainees) and there is no family member to answer for them, they put them back (in jail),” commented an adult woman who was accompanied by two minors.
