Lima Mayor Rafael López Aliaga on April 17 said he favored imitating the measures against insecurity in his city in the style of El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele.
“[Crime] is getting out of control.”
“I think we have to move to a phase two, as has been done in other countries like El Salvador, where [President] Bukele brought out the Army,” Lopez Aliaga told a press conference from Lima.
Bukele has tackled his country’s gang problem with a strong prison regime and the Army’s intervention.
For the military’s intervention in support of the Police, the Lima mayor affirmed his willingness to dialogue with the authorities of the Ministry of Defense.
“I believe that the issue of insecurity is now structural.”
“I think we have to coordinate with the Ministry of Defense to have the military on the streets because the issue is out of control,” he said.
Citizen insecurity in Lima has returned to public discussion after the murder, on April 16, of a “sereno” (municipal police officer) at the hands of an as-yet-unknown criminal.
On the other hand, the mayor, a conservative right-wing politician, has expressed his willingness for members of the Serenazgo (municipal Police) to carry non-lethal weapons to fight crime.
With information from Sputnik
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