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El Salvador president orders arrest of bus firm heads for defying free trip coverage
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El Salvador president orders arrest of bus firm heads for defying free trip coverage

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El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele listens throughout a gathering with President Donald Trump within the Oval Workplace of the White Home in Washington on Monday.

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SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador — El Salvador President Nayib Bukele ordered police through social media on Monday to arrest 5 heads of bus firms within the Central American nation after they defied his order to supply free transport for per week following a serious freeway closure.

El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele waves as he departs following a meeting at the White House with President Donald Trump, Monday, April 14, 2025, in Washington.

The order was one other instance of Bukele’s heavy-handed techniques. The second-term chief has been accused of undermining democratic establishments, punishing dissenters and denying entry to due course of beneath a “state of emergency” that he declared in 2022 to battle the nation’s highly effective avenue gangs. Regardless of the crackdown, the federal government has denied the nation is a police state.

On Sunday, Bukele had introduced through X that each one bus fares for per week could be utterly free because of development the federal government was finishing up on one of many fundamental highways working via San Salvador.

The order resulted in widespread chaos on Monday, fueling lengthy bus traces within the Salvadoran capital and overcrowded buses that skipped stops on a variety of routes.

In response, Bukele ordered the seize of 5 heads of bus firms Monday, accusing them of “sabotaging the country.” He claimed that the federal government was overlaying “100% of the income they normally receive per day,” however The Related Press was not instantly capable of confirm the knowledge with bus drivers.

“The National Civil Police should proceed with the arrest of the owners of the routes involved,” Bukele wrote on a social media submit. “No one is above the law.”

Later Monday, the nation’s federal police division posted photographs of the handcuffed males surrounded by closely armed officers, saying they’d been detained for “breach of duty, denial of assistance, and extortion,” offering few particulars on their arrests.

The Nationwide Transportation Committee, which represents the businesses concerned, mentioned in a press release that they had been shocked by the arrests. They blamed confusion on some routes on the truth that the free rides had been introduced only a day earlier they usually weren’t capable of notify everybody.

President Trump meets with President Nayib Bukele of El Salvador in the Oval Office on April 14, 2025.

Luis Regalado, a member of the commerce group, mentioned that most of the drivers are paid every day and had been unclear on how they might be paid or by whom.

Lucio Vázquez, the group’s secretary, appealed to Bukele, saying they’d been companions along with his administration. “We are not saying that we’re not going to continue giving free service,” he mentioned.

It comes as Bukele has gained a global highlight for detaining greater than 200 Venezuelan deportees from the U.S. in a “mega-prison” for gangs regardless of objections by American judges and human rights teams.

Attorneys contracted by the Venezuelan authorities requested Bukele on Monday for entry to the imprisoned Venezuelans to have “proof of life” of the boys who’ve been held incommunicado since they had been delivered by the U.S. authorities in March.

President Trump and President Nayib Bukele of El Salvador hold a meeting in New York on Sept.25, 2019, on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly.

In a letter despatched to Bukele’s workplace, they requested to have the ability to interview every of the Venezuelan prisoners. In addition they requested elementary questions together with what crimes they’d been charged with and beneath whose jurisdiction they’re.

The Trump administration had alleged the boys had been members of the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua. However in lots of circumstances the boys had no obvious felony historical past and family members denied they’d any gang ties.

Bukele final month supplied the Venezuelan authorities the boys in trade for the discharge of an equal variety of “political prisoners.” Venezuela President Nicolas Maduro rejected the proposal.

The legal professionals had beforehand filed habeas corpus petitions for 30 of the Venezuelans.

Bukele, who has hovering recognition in El Salvador due to his harsh crackdown on the nation’s gangs, has confronted sharp criticism for years by world leaders, legal professionals and human rights teams, which accuse him of denying residents due course of, violating the nation’s structure by in search of reelection and consolidating energy.

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