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San Salvador, Feb 25 (Prensa Latina) The government of El Salvador negotiated with gangs a favorable vote for the Nuevas Ideas party in the 2021 elections, revealed a report from the United States, local media reported here today.
The 89-page report, “‘We Can Arrest Anyone We Want’: Widespread Human Rights Violations Under El Salvador’s ‘State of Emergency’” documents mass arbitrary detention, torture and other forms of ill-treatment against detainees, enforced disappearances, deaths in custody, and abuse-ridden prosecutions. President Nayib Bukele’s swift dismantling of judicial independence since he took office in mid-2019 enabled the abuses.