El Salvador deploys 8,000 troops and police in gang crackdown.

OAN’s Abril Elfi

3:22 PM – Friday, August 4, 2023

Roughly ⁢8,000 soldiers and cops have encircled ⁢a rural area in El Salvador, in hopes of finding gang members who are reportedly hiding.

As part of one of the​ largest operations since President Nayib Bukele announced an assault on⁣ the gangs in March 2022, El Salvador dispatched about 7,000 ‌military service men and 1,000 police officers⁤ to search the remote area of ‍Cabañas​ for street gang members⁢ on Tuesday.

In the province ⁤of Cabañas, the troops set up checkpoints on all roadways coming in and out. The operation came after two police officers ‌were shot during a weekend attack on a patrol car.

Bukele took to Twitter to write his concerns and hopes about this operation.

“Cabañas has⁣ become the place with the largest number of terrorists, who ​came seeking to use the rural areas to hide,” Bukele wrote in a ⁣tweet. “This massive operation will guarantee greater security for the area, and we will not end it until we find all the criminals.”

The president⁢ emphasized that until “all the criminals” were arrested, the‍ siege would not be lifted. Nevertheless, he​ did not specify how ⁢the ⁤security forces ⁤would ​discern‍ between the two groups while ensuring Salvadorans that “honest people, ‌visitors, and tourists ​have nothing to fear.”

Tuesday’s action was the seventh ⁤large-scale raid since the 2020 gang campaign began. The government of ⁣Bukele ‍has suspended constitutional rights and has imprisoned 71,976 individuals, or 1% of the nation’s population, on gang-related charges.

However, in past raids the government has imprisoned people‌ based on their ‍looks and the location of where they lived without ⁤solid evidence that they were involved in any crime. According to the human rights organization Cristosal, as few as 30% of people who are⁣ detained have obvious connections to organized crime.

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