Before a single case of coronavirus, President Nayib Bukele placed El Salvador in lockdown and has engaged in other moves that critics say are authoritarian.
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Other photos released on social media showed workers soldering cells shut with metal plates — a response, Bukele said, to gang members’ practice of communicating via hand signals through the openings in cell bars, probably ordering killings and other crimes outside. The inmates, vowed Osiris Luna Meza, Bukele’s chief of prisons, wouldn’t see “a ray of sun.”
The images quickly went viral, blared across news media and internet sites worldwide, sparking global condemnation about the dehumanization of inmates.Adding to the international outrage about the images was the clear disdain for social-distancing measures — steps that Bukele previously championed as a means of thwarting the spread of the virus.in recent weeks as prisoners demand protective gear and other measures to shield them from the virus.
What sparked the recent four-day increase in gang violence remains unclear. Some speculate that gang members, cash-strapped during the pandemic, may have been sending out a message to extortion victims to pay up back dues. Others see darker motivations and possible behind-the-scenes maneuverings in a country still recuperating from a bloody, 12-year civil war that ended in 1992.How the criminal groups will respond to Bukele’s actions remains a major question.
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