Claudia Ortiz calls the plan to review gang collaborators' cases "improvisation"
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VAMOS lawmaker Claudia Ortiz called President Nayib Bukele's statements about reviewing the cases of detained gang collaborators "improvisation" (our translation) in a TV interview on Monday, October 19. "The problem we have in our country, I'll say it concisely, is a security and justice model that is unsustainable," she said, according to Diario El Salvador (our translation). Ortiz acknowledged that the model has delivered security results, but said what she asks for is justice, both for those who committed crimes and for those jailed without having done anything. She also mentioned forced disappearances inside the prison system, according to both outlets.
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