🇸🇻El Salvador president pledges white-collar prison in ‘war’ on corruption

El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele on Thursday announced a bill to slim down the country’s political system as he launched a “war against corruption” and pledged to build a prison to hold white-collar criminals.

🗣“Just as we fought the gangs head on with the full force of the state, we will launch a full-on war against corruption,” he said in a national address. “Just as we built a prison for the terrorists, we will build one for the corrupt,” Bukele said.

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🇦🇷🇸🇻 Bullrich tells Bukele she wants to replicate his security plan in Argentina

Argentina's Security Minister Patricia Bullrich told El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele Friday in Washington DC at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) summit that “we want to follow the model you are carrying out” to tackle crime.

Bullrich praised Bukele for lowering “crime as you have done and still endure criticism when you have saved millions and millions of lives.”

🗣“We really want to work and see what you have done. We put a lot of effort into it and we need to get to that place too. And we are going to get there. We are making an important change in Argentina,” Bullrich told Bukele.

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