The military and police are pressing on Pandilleros in the populous Salvador district

SAN SALVADOR (AP) — More than 2,000 soldiers and 500 police officers searched a populous neighborhood on the outskirts of the Salvadoran capital Monday to track and capture the remains of the Pandillas that had been stabilized in the zone, President Nayib Bukele said.

“Police intelligence determined that on October 10, they encountered a group of kidnapped soldiers in the colony of San Marcos, San Salvador Sur. “I have set up a security presence across the colony… to give me more time before I am in the area,” the commissioner said on Twitter.

The order was given by the Minister of National Defense, Viceroy René Francis Merino Monroy. The Minister of Public Security, Gustavo Villatoro, is in the supervision zone of the establishments.

“Estamos tras estos delincuentes. We point out that I want to establish myself in this sector and that the senior President has been given the task of appointing the government of this state,” reads the defense minister's manifesto to explain to the officials of the parliament.

Merino Monroy agreed that elements of the police unit were in the area to avoid possible escapes from the zone and confirmed that they would “track down the archives, the personal data and the person who could come across them.” estos sectors”.

It is the place of military security installed since last year to use a car and capture small groups of soldiers who continue to operate in the country.

In March this year, Bukele ordered the dispersal of three populous communities in the northern department of Chalatenango targeting a group from Pandilla Barrio 18 that has been plagued by two murders.

For more than three decades, the Maras or Pandillas have been present among the population of municipalities and districts across the country, extorting bus companies and demanding that people not be paid. It is also implicated in the Narcotráfico.

In 2015, El Salvador was one of the most violent countries in the world, with 5,656 murders and a number of 106 violent victims out of a population of approximately 1,000,000.

But the Panorama revealed that the State Register on the 62nd day and Congress in March 2022 had approved Bukele's request to introduce a derogation that would suspend the constitutional guarantees based on the approval of the association and allow the authorities to intervene. Communication of sospechosos.

In addition, the prison sentence was extended from 72 hours to 15 days without a court order. It is important for those arrested to find out the reasons behind their concerns about joining a prison sentence for their defence.

Congress also approved reform of the criminal code a year ago to convert the sentence to one that ranges from 20 to 40 years in prison. The Cabecillas can be up to 60 years old.

The medication, the natural time, the last two years and the middle class and has been questioned on repeated occasions by organisms and activists of human violence, more than 6,000 denunciations have been made by the victims and the deaths have been documented 329 people in freedom.

The final year in 2023 included 214 murders, including 38 assassination victims and numerous releases by authorities. Last year, 125 people were registered with the police.