Política de seguridad pública en El Salvador durante la presidencia de Nayib Bukele (2019–2021)

Abstract

The purpose of this article is to analyze the public security policy of President Nayib Bukele in the years 2019-2021.The main objective of the author is to present the guidelines of the President' s plan to fight crime as well as to analyze the measures taken and to assess their effectiveness in comparison with the public security strategies implemented by his predecessors in the period 2003-2019.The article consists of three parts. In the first, the author synthetically characterizes gangs as the major threat to public security in El Salvador. In the second, he outlines the public security policy in El Salvador from 2003 to 2019. He focuses on the changing perception of threats and changes in the law, as well as the mechanisms and consequences of the security militarization process. In the third part of the text, the author analyzes President Bukele's plan to fight the maras , both in terms of his declared statements and on a practical level. He focuses on identifying and exposing the changes and continuity in the public security policy implemented in El Salvador since 2003.