:quality(85)//cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/infobae/VRLDWBCUIZH27HYMY4DUFLJSMM.jpg "El Salvador's Minister of Justice questioned Gustavo Petro for criticizing Nayib Bukele: \"He has to take care of other types of interests\" 1")
He president of colombia, Gustavo Petro and its Salvadoran counterpart, Nayib Bukele, have become contradictory in social networks for the conception of the fight against crime and violence that they carry out from their governments. Faced with criticism, the Minister of Justice Gustave Villatoro joins the questions.
Bukele designed his security policy, at least publicly, to punish criminals by increasing sentences, reducing prison conditions and increasing the number of arrests. Meanwhile, Petro sought to negotiate with criminal gangs in exchange for legal benefits and to focus justice on the restorative side.
The Colombian also questioned Bukele’s actions on social media and even in comparisons to Nazism, which were not well received by the President of El Salvadornor by the person who directs the prison policy of this country, the Minister of Justice and Public Security.
The manager assured, in dialogue with Week, that Petro’s comparison to the prisons built by the oralism They are not only a critic of his government, but a “offense to humanity”. “I think he should take care of other types of interests and we should continue to work for Salvadorans,” the official said.
Petro had questioned the mega prison that El Salvador had built as a concentration camp “full of young people”, to which Bukele had replied that “the results weighed more than rhetoric”, since he assures that they reached historic reductions in the homicide rate to go from one of the most dangerous countries in the world to 7.6 per 100,000 people in 2022.
“This small country of the American continent that is El Salvador shows the world that when there is no relationship with delinquents, any government can free its people from the subjugation of organized crime. A strong State detached from the task criminal can and must implement actions to free its citizens from the claws of crimeVillatoro added to Week.
The Minister of Justice assured that they do not believe in resocialization because they consider that there is no possibility that the phenomenon of delinquency with which they are confronted can be solved by these mechanisms. “We are not going to spend a penny for the rehabilitation of criminals,” he condemned the aforementioned medium.
He assured that through tougher prison sentences and effective capture of criminals, it is guaranteed that criminal organizations will not rise again. A conception totally opposed to the policy of President Petro which considers reconciliation as the element of prevention of recidivism.
The Salvadoran government praises the homicide reduction figures, but there is no specific information on how the data is constructed. Likewise, the treatment of other public authorities in this country in the implementation of the policy is questioned, as is the respect for the human rights of detainees and innocent defendants.
Villatoro is the official with whom the representative in the House Columbia, Jose Jaime Uscateguiof the Democratic Center, to invite Bukele to visit the country in October 2023. The reason for the invitation comes within the framework of the commemoration of the seventh anniversary of the plebiscite for peace in 2016.
“Now we are meeting with the Minister of Justice and Security of El Salvador, Hector Gustavo Villatoro. We were able to know in depth the Territorial Control Plan set up by the President Nayib Bukele and we have extended the invitation to the October 2 Summit in Bogotá,” the representative informed through his social networks.