SAN SALVADOR, Feb 24 - El Salvador's government moved thousands of suspected gang members to a newly opened "mega prison" on Friday, the latest step in a controversial crackdown on crime that has caused the Central American nation's prison population to soar.
"This will be their new home, where they won't be able to do any more harm to the population," President Nayib Bukele wrote on Twitter. Around 2,000 accused gang members were moved to the 40,000-person-capacity prison, considered to be the largest in the Americas, early Friday morning. In a video posted by Bukele, prisoners stripped down to white shorts, with their heads shaved, are seen running through the new prison into cells. Many bear gang tattoos.last year, which has since been extended several times, that suspends some constitutional rights after a dramatic spike in murders attributed to violent gangs.
Sad but necessary to stop homocides of innocent citizens!
Nayib Bukele!!! Excellent president!!
Very sad. Wasted destinies. The government should look at ways of redirecting the lives of these young men positively.
XadrezVerbal
Mataban y violaban. No estoy de acuerdo en el maltrato al ser vivo, pero la violencia y el miedo q generaban despedazaba La Paz. Los muertos no reviven y las mujeres violadas nunca recuperan La Paz.
sei de nada. mas se fosse em QUALQUER país socialista esse bando de liberal facho a favor de trabalho escravo tava chorando aqui por direitos humanos. vão tomar no cy seus facho
That's a concentration camp.
Why the 'west' arent concerned about human rights in there like xinjiang or ucraine?
Só vejo beleza e moralidade
lmonasterio venha assistir essa 'maravilha' em El Salvador. Já que vc é crítico do punitivismo, lembro de vc criticando a URSS, que horror, não é?
MS13
Very disturbing!
This is inhumane. What due process was followed? The crime committed by most of those men is to have been born poor. Why do we clap these concentration camps, but accept the current colonial world order? My heart shrinks when I see this.
XadrezVerbal 👀
A extrema direita vendo isso deve estar tendo orgasmos múltiplos.
Looks like MK Ultra training.
Good, they look hideous
E Eloi mosca vai já ajudar a patrocinar essa merda.
Impressive.
The deep state wants to impose its hegemony, the world will not be one pole. The beginning of the fall of the deep state and the fall of George Soros and Bill Gates
How did they get them all to be so complicit and move with a sense of urgency like that? These are supposedly some of the hardest criminals, looking like trained circus animals. Wish the US could get our convicts in-line like that, but I’m sure it would be violating their rights.
Allah akbar
Sådan, Danmark kunne lære noget. 👍
Great president
Ukraine needs help
mierdolas
They getting ready to be sent to the southern border to be let free in USA
Better than Abu Grhaib 😎
Big homie die lil homie replenish it.
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M_Hameedh We are lucky…. Our gangs are on loose. 😂😂😂😂
We need more Bukeles presidents in Latan
妙に従順で怯えてる様子なのは、映像の前に何かが起こった?😂
Excellent move by the president
Thats what they get for being murderers, rapists, killers. Ms13 members deserve all that they are going through for destroying that country.
Everybody deserves a free and fair trial
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These animals are very dangerous. I’m scared for the prison guards.
Are they planning rehabilitation or just storing them? They could be used as organdonors, start with kidneys and take it from there. nayibbukele ElSalvadorTimes ElSalvadorVisas ElSalvadorRL cc_elsalvador OrganHarvesting OrganDonation ScottAdamsSays CP_OEA
Self reflection is after the fact, atonement & forgiveness is also after the fact; but being taught to make informed decisions as in Middle School with different scenarios through role playing then multiple choice test getting gist is before the fact lead to positive experiences.
Salvador is ripping a page from US book putting a stunning percentage of its population in prisons. Salvador is to rip a page from US book to make the best of the concentration of labor.
This people should be used as organ donnors. It's a crisis
Lol.. That's the American Democracy.
This is straight out Kafka !!
It’s giving Les Mis
Horrifying on so many levels
Where the mind goes the body follows if would of been taught like in Middle School to make informed decisions with different scenarios through role playing then a multiple choice test to get the gist, instead it's the amygdala effect they have experienced most of their lives.
Imagine doing this in California
'Murder reports fell about 57%.'
If you tattoo MS13 on your body chances are......
They will probably be showing up at our border sometime in the near future, and of course the biden administration will welcome them with open arms. Friggin liberals could F up a one car funeral and do so on a daily basis.
Why do they have to be treated that way?
Concetration camp is now called a 'mega prison' interesting.
People already saying this is genocide if it was in China, see how hypocrite people are?
This was the most inhuman treatment of any human being. Shame on those doing it and approving it hrw UNHumanRights AusHumanRights HumanRights humanity
If they are truly gang members then great,, hopefully no collateral damage in there. Looks brutal
The way they packed them like sardine , first picture gave me goose bumps
Dégueulasse. Inhumain.
Too nice for them.
'Suspected gang members' 🤷♂️
This images are from a terror movie? What is going on on that country? No wonder people try to leave at any cost.
'suspected gang members'? What's due process in El Salvador? That's a pretty harsh experience for an innocent person.
Free all them Bros
these comments are disgusting yall are watching people be utterly dehumanised on film and uncritically absorbing that dehumanisation and then defensively justifying that shit with some 'w-well' bullshit. praying you get sent up to the worst possible lockups to learn a long lesson
In SA the prison business could be lucrative 🤔
Backs to the wall. Any wall...
Suspected? They've all got gang tattoos. Dribblers
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This is a serious threat to this nation.
WOW. The tattoo artists must be loaded there.🤣🤣
Maybe if you take a closer look you'll be able to spot the gang related tattoos all over their bodies, from head to toes. Only then, you won't use the word 'suspected' anymore and you'll refer to them as to what they really are: 'Terrorists'
📁 MegaPrison
Glad they are taking action!
Life choices. Not many Librarians are covered in gang tats.
Awwww. Hopefully the innocent get sorted out..
57% fall in murder reports ey? sounds like they're getting results.
80% of them will be at Texas borders next week. USA needs these kind of people.
At first glance, I thought this is Russian Wagner military (criminal) group
Tattooed is compulsory in their nation or Wat? All r tattooed. 🤔
These prisoners should not be burden to the nation. They should be made to work. Govt should engage them. Time utilisation with work output.
przystojniaki ?
I'd keep them all in jail for life.
وعليكم ورحمة ض
The Americans itself allowed to violate human rights but they weaponise human rights violation against another country.
NICE !
That's looks like movie scene,
Why mega prison is controversial, but the crimes of the gangs aren't? 🤔
We need this in USA 🇺🇸, especially in CA 🙌🏻
Controversial
“Suspected”. What a nation.
The way they are moving is wild. That guard in the lil clip (1:10) has an M60. Ammo box, using a belt. Lol that one guard could stop a riot.
Mexico and US should take a note. In fact, life sentences should be death sentences as they are in Singapore.
Just execute all of them. No one is going to miss them.
Suspected?
interesting
Apply the capital punishment. You will save money and the 57% will become 97%.
Looks like the US Southern border.
Drastic measures were needed. Nobel Peace prize for Bukele!
Look at all those outstanding citizens getting arrested.. ignore the gang tattoos
Remember the stadiums filled with their prisoners in the 80s. This won't end well.
don't listen to so called human rights Keep on cracking those criminals
Good for them!
GetVideoBot
This. This is a good thing.
If this is true, great. Maybe next instead of moving and housing them, just make them disappear
Centralized processing facility and a suspension of constitutional rights is a nice FIRST STEP. Unfortunately there is no appetite for this in American cities. These types of gangs are integral to certain factions WITHIN American ruling class.
How about education, jobs and opportunities? That would be easier then building these huge prisons.
Astonishing
Asi es que se tratan a los criminales que dañan vidas y sociedades. Excelente trabajo!
But what has it done to crime stats?
interesting
How is that controversial? Because you say it’s controversial doesn’t make it so. It’s a move needed to protect the mass population who have been terrorized by gangs like MS13 who are actual terrorists and do no good for society aside from gangs, drugs and raw violence
Can’t they just gas the urban terrorists
Seems Sombra Negra has been at work. I will not judge this for some time. If things like femicide go down, or there are many less missing women & girls in migrant groups, then this was the right move. If those girls and women live, this is the right choice.
Are you sure the wording was correct here? From what I read, these weren't 'suspected' gang members, they have all been convicted of their crimes.
Well done!!
looks interesting
Now families can raise their children peacefully
Suspected?🙄🙄 Give me a break.
I thought 💭 they’re always in movies.
Controversial? How about reduction in crimes? Good for El Salvador
Bantag: “target-rich environment”
Jennife79696588 Stripping away rights opens is not good but it should be dealt with on a large scale.
👏 thanks to Nayib Bukele
ReplyGPT
Good.
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With these monsters off the streets, perhaps migrants will go home.
Half of them we're probably headed for our border.Good job.
Just like cattle.
Alea_ Shitty and biased reporting, Reuters. Poor.
GeoGonzalezES EXCUSE ME ☝️ it has caused the good people of El Salvador to soar and be free at last now.
Good lockem up.A long time coming
I bet they regret their life choices now.
Controversial? These thugs were running people out of their own homes for years. Someone needed to make a stand. Bukele did.
They are gang members and convicted already, not “suspected “ do better ! 🤡
My wife and I finally took our three children, after 22 yrs of waiting, to El Salvador in December to celebrate Christmas with family thanks to this. BRAVO! Subjugation of rights/safety of the masses for maybe trampling on the 'rights' of the few is an 'oh well' situation.
Why do crminals like tattoo 🧐🧐
hecate40 Not that I don’t support locking criminals up, I do, but what is wrong with this small country that so many of its males are in gangs? Is there an elite class? Rampant poverty? Bad economy? All three? So sad. 🤷♀️
Put them in labor. Send them to war. Or excute all of them.
Someone really needs to check on men.
All these young men need is Jesus . They fill the vacuum in their lives with something they believe gives them identity . ElSalvador XAVIAERD ClayTravis
GeoGonzalezES 👏👏👏👏👏Presidente Bukele for saving El Salvador 👏👏👏👏👏👏
The only controversial issue was how the United States allowed El Salvador to become a gang nation by supporting decades worth of leaders who were essentially “yes men” to what the US wanted. Finally a leader with balls shows up and puts his people first.
Question: Did Black Men start gangs or have there always been gangs? Seriously asking...
No fat people in the video. Americans will pay a lot of money to be treated like that to loose weight.
GeoGonzalezES “Suspected” I think you don’t know the reality in El Salvador! They are real criminals & if they are in the new jail is ‘ cause they’re the worse of the worse! Don’t confuse people with the way you deliver the new! They’re gang members is a fact
Its a Todd Chrisley's dream to be housed with these boys..
Wow such total submission must be induced by real fear, one wonders if they have been killing them as well.
The US needs to get tougher on crime and especially organized crime!
We need this in the US!!!
Suspected? Really?
Maybe send them to Ukraine to fight and earn freedom and citizenship? Our is Ukraine too racist to allow color?
As sum up, perfect. Well done, Mr. Bukele. Freedom for citizens.nayibbukele
That’s from Mexico needs to do with the cartels
Peace
🙏🙏🙏 These are still people no matter what crimes they commit.🙏🙏🙏😹
Dramatically reducing murders is ‘controversial’. -Reuters style book 2023. 🤦🏻♂️
It’s only a matter of time that they release them at the southern border.
57% is a darn good number
Well done nayibbukele
What if we tried giving them toys and games and tried to rehabilitate them instead of treating everyone like an animal
Man's inhumanity to man must stop Now!
At least they’re trying to do something!
And Biden let's them all in.
Send them to the USA 🤣
When they can no longer afford to feed them....they'll probably be released at our open border.
And caused the Central American nation to reduce murders to ZERO. Ok, I’ve fixed the tweet for you.
🙄 wondering how much cost to maintain 40% population in jail….whether like it or not punishments beyond prison are required there…
Nowhere in the article has the huge reduction in crime rate as a result of the crackdown been mentioned. Seems like an important point to ignore.
Plan B is to ship them to USA. Actually, that’s plan A. Democrats are paying cartels, corrupt governments, and the illegal invaders too well for the service, how could they refuse Democrats
If only my Government did something similar. The liberals would go into meltdown but we would b safer.
What’s left is on the way to the USA.
The US needs to do this yesterday
They should March these M13 gang members into the big volcano they have there and save millions. Their new leader has balls. Good for him!
It seems to be ihuman violating human rights Universal letter that El Salvador subscribed. The gang crime was soaring they had to take extreme measures. Don't expect those human beings to be converted to good social citizans after this treatment break their souls and minds.
America should take notes
“Suspected”?
yoyoyofhl
Brilliant. Introduce this in out of control UK.
At a difference with AMLO’s policies of “Abrazos, no balazos” vs Narcos in Mexico, Presidente Bukele captured & imprisoned 50000 Maras Salvatrucha & Calle 13 gang members and pacified El Salvador: Bravo ! 👍👏
El Salvador’s new murder rate: 0
Bukele is a hero
what a pigs life these gangsters live!!!
TwiddersGad
Yeah, because those tattoos suggests they have a wrong political leaning, right?
Why would it be so controversial to tackle crime! Oh yes western country’s love criminals so goverment can control common man 🤔
Rest in peace
But that country is a safe for travelling ☺️.
I look & think when expect this photo with an inscription abt Azov 🤔 Or this time RussianGoebbels will use a pseudo-Ukrainian account for a fake cover of sending ruSSian murderers and rapists to the homes of the civilian population of Ukraine directly from ruSSian prisons?
Real Madrid best team and they know it
Wish the president of El Salvador was our president
I'm surprised they aren't sending them across the border.
I smell a Netflix series.
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