Bukele closes a new department of El Salvador with 5,000 soldiers and 1,000 police in search of gang members. Two young men handcuffed with their hands behind their backs and on their knees are surrounded by hundreds of heavily armed military and police officers in El Salvador.
It is the latest show of force by the Government of Nayib Bukele, who imposed a new military siege on Sunday night and early Monday morning. The president accuses these groups of being part of "international organizations", in the Mara Salvatrucha and Barrio 18.