The former Costa Rican president, Luis Guillermo Solís, criticized this Monday the government of Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele and his decision to extend the emergency regime, which he has been extending in the last year through the Legislative Assembly to curb the homicide rate in the Central American country.
Solís, who was present at an act in Costa Rica in honor of the victims of the repression in Nicaragua, lamented in conversation with the voice of america that in Costa Rican territory Bukele was viewed with great admiration “because he has managed to position the idea that criminal violence, and especially that of the gangs, can be controlled based on massive human rights violations but with a firm hand.”
“It is a lousy example, but many people see it as the best example, and it is becoming what some who deludedly call the Bukele doctrine,” Solís said. “I believe that El Salvador has entered into a dynamic that is very close to a dictatorial regime and we must pay close attention to it,” he added.
Bukele has reiterated his criticism of those who criticize his policies against padilleros and has expressed: “The human rights of honest people are more important than those of criminals.”
In mid-May, Bukele launched a message against human rights organizations and the international community, in the context of the murder of a policeman allegedly by a gang member.
“Let all the human rights NGOs know that we are going to wipe out these damn murderers and their collaborators, we will put them in prison and they will never get out. We do not care about their pitiful reports, their prepaid journalists, their puppet politicians, or their famous community international, who never cared about our people,” Bukele snapped in Twitter.
Cristosal Report
This Monday, a publication by the NGO Cristosal, the most important one that monitors human rights in El Salvador, revealed that the conditions to which people deprived of their liberty are subjected by the emergency regime “are characteristic of inhuman and degrading treatment.” .
The report documented 153 deaths in state custody during the emergency regime. It also points out that the inmates are subjected to “torture practices, beatings and punishments.”
“This is a government policy of punishment and terror for people detained by the emergency regime, which impacts the entire Salvadoran population,” he stresses. cristosal.
The Bukele government has not responded to said report until the time of publishing this article.
Solís questions the passivity of Central America before Ortega
On the other hand, the former president who governed Costa Rica from May 2014 to May 2018, expressed his concern about the panorama in Central America and its repercussion “in the political and human spheres.”
“The dictatorship in Nicaragua is a stain that affects the entire region and beyond because it is marked by a process of deterioration of democratic institutions that, although it is not carried out within the borders of those countries, of some of them, due to the The simple fact that it affects so many thousands of people in another, constitutes a problem that concerns us, it is not ours,” he stressed.
Thousands of Nicaraguan exiles live in Costa Rica as a result of the anti-government protests in Nicaragua in 2018, and for that reason, Solís believes that all efforts must continue to “bring those responsible to international justice.”
Solís also criticized the support given to Ortega from the Central American Integration System (SICA) and the Central American Bank for Economic Integration (CABEI) and stressed that “the appeasement of regimes such as the Ortega-Murillo regime is deplorable.”
“It seems to me that there has been a lack of clarity in the Central American governments, including the Costa Rican government, which now turns out to be talking about normalizing relations with an atrocious dictatorship,” he concluded.
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