Minister of Security of Argentina visits El Salvador to learn about “The Bukele Model”

The Minister of Security of Argentina, Patricia Bullrich, is in El Salvador to maintain an exchange with the authorities of the country’s Security Cabinet and thus learn about “The Bukele Model” to combat violence and crime.

The official of Javier Milei’s government in the South American nation is in the country to learn about the work of Nayib Bukele’s government in the historical reduction of violence that El Salvador has experienced during his mandate, in order to return to it as an example for implement in Argentina.

Bullrich was received by the Minister of Security, Gustavo Villatoro, who accompanied her on a tour of the Terrorism Confinement Center (Cecot), the megaprison built under the mandate of Nayib Bukele and that functions as part of the strategies to eradicate the gangs from Salvadoran territory.

«As a result of the bilateral meeting between President @nayibbukele and President @JMilei, we welcome Minister @PatoBullrich, to the safest country in Latin America. It is a true pleasure to receive you in El Salvador, I am sure that this visit from Argentina will be enriching, you and your team will be able to see first-hand the “Bukele Model””, Minister Villatoro published on the social network X.

Last February, Bullrich held a brief meeting with President Nayib Bukele. The official published a video on her X account about the meeting with the Salvadoran president, emphasizing the desire of the current Argentine government to resume El Salvador’s strategies to combat crime.

«From a daily massacre and a country controlled by the maras (criminal gangs) to a society where life is taken care of. An experience where people are cared for and the criminal is not welcome. That’s where we’re going! », the Argentine minister published on her X account after the meeting with Bukele.

The meeting between Bullrich and Bukele took place within the framework of the Conservative Action Political Conference (CPAC), in which Bukele participated as a special guest, the achievements in public security that El Salvador has and that have led it to position itself as the country safest in Latin America.

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