The Supreme Court putting a question mark on the validity of bulldozing the properties of criminals in some states. Higher judiciary judges have the luxury of going on summer vacation like kindergarten kids, so they have enough time to read how a country where even dreaded criminals used to fear going on the street got rid of crime and became one of the most peaceful countries in South America.
The name of the country is Al Salvador, where a president came into power with the promise to turn the country into a peaceful one, and what is more surprising is the leader is a foreigner Palestinian orthodox Christian nayib bukele, whose parents migrated to the country. He gave the ultimatum to the criminals that surrender in 3 months or face the bullets, and if any security personnel or members of the judiciary are found to be hand in glove with the criminals, they too will face the music.
The result is that most prisons are stuffed with criminals up to the rooftops, and people of every country in the region urgently desire him to be the president of their country. His popularity can be gauged from the fact that he could fight the election a third time for presidentship. The constitution was forced to be amended in parliament acknowledging the people’s opinion poll because, like many democracy limits, it is that of only two terms.
He won his third term with 85 percentage points of vote, with international observers allowed to monitor the poll. During the last 20 years, in different moments, El Salvador has been the most violent country in the world.” According to the article published in a famous journal, Vox, the presence of organized criminal groups in communities has impacted people’s lives almost totally, absolutely, and created conditions of violence, levels of violence that compare to armed conflict.”
It forced between 20 and 25 percent of the Salvadoran population to flee—mmany to the US, where MS-13 was born in the 1980s. Some members of MS-13 and Barrio 18, which like MS-13 began in the Los Angeles area, were deported back to El Salvador, where they could operate with relative impunity, even from prison. Gang members on the street could engage in extortion, kidnapping, and murder, as well as make money through the illicit drug and human trafficking trades. Now all of this is the stuff of the past.
* writer is senior journalist of India and the views are personal
