“Come to invest here, with legal security, with physical security and with the total conviction that you are investing in a country that is going up,” said the president, when inaugurating a private pharmaceutical plant, 10 km west of San Salvador.
In response to an escalation of violence attributed to gangs that left 87 dead in one weekend, Bukele imposed an emergency regime in March 2022, questioned by human rights organizations because it allows arrests without a court order.
“We are about to eliminate them (the gangs)“First, God be soon, but they are already out of operation,” said Bukele, who assumed his mandate in 2019 and will seek re-election in the February elections.
Under the emergency regime, more than 73 thousand suspected gang members have been arrested. More than 7 thousand innocent people had to be freed.
Bukele warned that anyone who remains in a gang will be taken to the Terrorism Confinement Center (CECOT), a mega prison with capacity for 40,000 inmates that was put into operation last February for gang members.
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“What has been born in this government is a safe country, a country where you can invest safely,” the president remarked.
The president assured that direct private investments went from US$5,291 million in 2021 to US$5,900 million in 2022.
The pharmaceutical plant that inaugurated, with Salvadoran capital, represents an investment of about US$100 million.
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2023-11-22 00:39:12
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