Tastes and colors. The president of the Salvador did not really like the parade of the stylist Willy Chavarría at the Paris Fashion Week, which he interpreted as a tribute to the members of gangs imprisoned in his country. The American fashion designer of Mexican origin scrolled on Friday mannequins dressed in white t-shirts and shorts, kneeling, hands behind the back-in reference to illegal migrants expelled from the United States under the Trump administration. A sequence that has not escaped Nayib Bukele, as the outfits recalled those imposed on the detainees of his center of confinement of terrorism (CECOC). This gigantic high security prison was inaugurated in 2023 by the young president as part of his war against the slumps, these powerful criminal gangs that gangrented the country.
“We are ready to send them to Paris as soon as we receive the green light from the French government”he quipped on social networks, republishing the video of the show. The press secretariat of the presidency, for its part, denounced a “Tribute to criminals imprisoned in the CECOT”while greeting the “Firm position” from Nayib Bukele.
A formidable security policy
Since March 2022, the Salvador has lived under an emergency. The exceptional regime allows arrest without a mandate and has led, according to the authorities, to more than 86,000 arrests. About 8,000 people were released after being recognized innocent. NGOs denounce monitoring maintained on these former prisoners and multiple abuses. “I don’t care that I treat me a dictator”he swept away on June 1 during a speech to the nation. “I prefer that I am called a dictator rather than seeing them kill Salvadorians in the streets”he insisted.
Despite criticism from human rights defenders, Bukele’s security policy continues to benefit from broad support in Salvadoral opinion, homicides having reached their lowest historical level. THE “Cool dictator in the world”as he was nicknamed in the past, leads a merciless fight against drug traffickers and insecurity. In 2019, the number of homicides ran out of 87 per 100,000 inhabitants; In 2023, he fell to 2.41 per 100,000 inhabitants.
