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El Salvador's Bukele seeks emergency powers over spike in gang killings
El Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele on Saturday urged lawmakers to declare a state of emergency after authorities arrested dozens of gang members over a recent wave of bloodshed.
Gang violence has soared in El Salvador in recent days, with more than 20 killings registered since Friday night, government human rights lawyer Ricardo Martinez reported, while other public security sources said up to 30 homicides may have taken place.
Police and the military on Saturday arrested several leaders of the Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13) gang over the deaths.
In response Bukele asked Congress -- controlled by his ruling party -- to meet to declare a state of emergency, under which certain freedoms are curtailed.
The Salvadoran constitution says that a state of emergency can be put into place "in cases of war, invasion of territory, rebellion, sedition, catastrophe, epidemic or other general calamity, or serious disturbances of public order."
"Since yesterday we have had a new spike in homicides, something that we had worked so hard to reduce," Bukele said in a statement posted on Twitter by Congress president Ernesto Castro.
"While we fight criminals in the streets, we must try to figure out what is happening and who is financing this."
Castro said the country "must let the agents and soldiers do their job and must defend them from the accusations of those who protect the gang members."
Bukele asked the prosecutor's office "to be effective with all the cases" of gang members that it processes, warning he would keep an eye on "judges who favor criminals."
Last November El Salvador suffered another spike in homicides that claimed the lives of some 45 people in three days.
The Mara Salvatrucha and Barrio-18 gangs, among others, have some 70,000 members in El Salvador, according to authorities, and operate through homicides, extortion, and drug trafficking.
The country registered 1,140 murders in 2021 -- an average of 18 deaths per 100,000 inhabitants -- less than the 1,341 registered the previous year and the lowest figure since the end of the civil war in 1992, according to official data.
P.Santos--AMWN