{"id":22768,"date":"2024-04-06T19:02:00","date_gmt":"2024-04-07T02:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/?p=22768"},"modified":"2024-04-06T19:02:00","modified_gmt":"2024-04-07T02:02:00","slug":"criminalize-community-leaders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/criminalize-community-leaders\/","title":{"rendered":"El Salvador: exception regime, instrument to criminalize community leaders"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_22770\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-22770\" style=\"width: 1600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-22770 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/El-Salvador-1.jpeg\" alt=\"El Salvador: exception regime, instrument to criminalize community leaders\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1066\" srcset=\"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/El-Salvador-1.jpeg 1600w, https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/El-Salvador-1-300x200.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/El-Salvador-1-1024x682.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/El-Salvador-1-768x512.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/El-Salvador-1-18x12.jpeg 18w, https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/El-Salvador-1-150x100.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/El-Salvador-1-696x464.jpeg 696w, https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/El-Salvador-1-1068x712.jpeg 1068w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-22770\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">According to experts, the Exception Regime in El Salvador has become an instrument to criminalize community leaders, since,<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Currently, it has been inappropriately exploited, using this regime not only for gangs but also with community leaders and other human rights defenders. Photo: Manuel Ortiz P360P<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><em>Listen to the full Por La Libre program.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"border-radius: 12px;\" src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed\/episode\/6E4XKLHZd2sJXG7A982LLy?utm_source=generator\" width=\"100%\" height=\"152\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This Saturday, April 6, 2024, on Por la Libre, Peninsula 360 Press&#039; Rodante Community Radio, Manuel Ortiz broadcast from El Salvador, a place where the Exception Regime, according to experts, has become an instrument of criminalization of people linked to civil society organizations.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Gabriela Santos, director of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.uca.edu.sv\/idhuca\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Human Rights Institute of the Jos\u00e9 Simeon Ca\u00f1as Central American University (UCA)<\/a>, considered that the country is experiencing a regression in terms of human rights, while compliance with the processes is not guaranteed, due to the fact that power is concentrated in a single person, President Nayib Bukele.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Currently, the Exception Regime has been inappropriately exploited, not only for gangs but also for community leaders and other human rights defenders.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&quot;Even though we have all the elements that indicate that the person has no ties, I cannot guarantee that his family will be free, I cannot guarantee that following due process and the rules that exist, the person will be released, everything is arbitrary,&quot; Santos stressed.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_22769\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-22769\" style=\"width: 1600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-22769 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/El-Salvador-3.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1066\" srcset=\"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/El-Salvador-3.jpeg 1600w, https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/El-Salvador-3-300x200.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/El-Salvador-3-1024x682.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/El-Salvador-3-768x512.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/El-Salvador-3-18x12.jpeg 18w, https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/El-Salvador-3-150x100.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/El-Salvador-3-696x464.jpeg 696w, https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/El-Salvador-3-1068x712.jpeg 1068w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-22769\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">\u201cEven though we have all the elements that indicate that the person has no connection, I cannot guarantee that his family will be free, I cannot guarantee that following due process and the rules that exist, the person will be released, everything is arbitrary\u201d \u2013 Gabriela Santos, <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Director of the Human Rights Institute of the Central American University Jos\u00e9 Simeon Ca\u00f1as (UCA). Photo: Manuel Ortiz P360P<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to the 2nd Annual Report on Human Rights Violations that Occurred under the State of Emergency in El Salvador, worrying cases have been documented where the regime can be used to criminalize the work of journalists, human rights defenders and community leaders, documenting cases where the justice system could be used to generate fear and silence voices, leading to a disarticulation of all community work carried out in the country.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to documented cases, at least 34 human rights defenders have been detained under the regime, 23 of which are women.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Rina Montti, director of Human Rights Research for the organization <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cristosal.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cristosal<\/a>, commented that the Exception Regime, legally speaking, is a temporary measure that must be taken in order to attack a specific problem, in a specific period.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A 2-year Exceptional Regime, after having been implemented with so many arbitrary detainees, becomes a weapon for the communities, said Rina Montti, adding that the measure is a weapon that is being carried out to control the population.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&quot;We have had cases of police officers who have arrested the new partners of their ex-partners, we have had police officers who have made arrests on a personal level, in the end they are revenge against family members, against ex-partners or as services to third parties,&quot; Montti said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In light of this, experts considered that the Exceptional Regime had gotten out of control. A clear case is that of the community leader Santos Alfaro, which curiously happened in one of the areas of the country where the indicators of violence have been extremely low, which seems senseless, leaving in doubt the real reason for his arrest.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Samuel Ramirez, coordinator of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/profile.php?id=100089192891750&amp;locale=lt_LT\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Victims of the Regime Movement<\/a>MOVIR explained that human rights violations are the order of the day in El Salvador, as there are arbitrary arrests, persecutions, and military cordons that persecute people, especially young people.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_22771\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-22771\" style=\"width: 1600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-22771 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/El-Salvador-2.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1066\" srcset=\"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/El-Salvador-2.jpeg 1600w, https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/El-Salvador-2-300x200.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/El-Salvador-2-1024x682.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/El-Salvador-2-768x512.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/El-Salvador-2-18x12.jpeg 18w, https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/El-Salvador-2-150x100.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/El-Salvador-2-696x464.jpeg 696w, https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/El-Salvador-2-1068x712.jpeg 1068w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-22771\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jos\u00e9 Santos Alfaro Ayala, a well-known community leader and co-founder of the Tamarindo Foundation, which carries out social work in the Guarjila canton and surrounding areas, was captured by police officers and detained for allegedly being involved with gangs, under the State of Exception. Photo: Manuel Ortiz P360P<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThey have released 7,000 people who were supposedly innocent, people who are human beings with the right to live a free life, and then what happens to the people who were imprisoned for a year or more? Who is going to repair the damage?\u201d Ram\u00edrez said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He also pointed out that in the case of Santos Alfaro, many people know that he was a good person and dedicated to sport, a man who had his foot in his mouth.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Jos\u00e9 Santos Alfaro Ayala, a well-known community leader and co-founder of the Tamarindo Foundation, which carries out social work in the Guarjila canton and surrounding areas, was captured by police officers and detained for allegedly being involved with gangs, under the Exceptional Regime.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">To learn more about the topic, listen to the full Por la Libre program of April 6, 2024, giving <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/free-2024\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Click here<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>You may be interested in:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/exception-regime-in-el-salvador-2\/\">The other side of the coin of the emergency regime of El Salvador in the defense of human rights<\/a><\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Escucha el programa completo de Por La Libre.\u00a0 Este s\u00e1bado 6 de abril de 2024 en Por la Libre, Radio Comunitaria Rodante de Pen\u00ednsula 360 Press, Manuel Ortiz transmiti\u00f3 desde El Salvador, lugar donde el R\u00e9gimen de Excepci\u00f3n, de acuerdo con expertos, se ha convertido en un instrumento de criminalizaci\u00f3n de personas vinculadas a las [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":22770,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,8],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-22768","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cover","8":"category-usworld"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22768","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22768"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22768\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22773,"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22768\/revisions\/22773"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}