San Salvador.
After thousands of Salvadorans They took to the streets this Monday breaking the home quarantine mandatory by the coronavirus looking for a bonus 300 dollars announced by the president Nayib Bukele, the president was forced to close the distribution centers.
In the face of chaos, Bukele ordered the closure of all the headquarters of the National Center for Assistance and Administration of Subsidy (CENADE) from different cities by the agglomeration of thousands of citizens, among them elderly and adults accompanied by children.
He millennial president He later apologized to the population through an emotional statement in his social networks.
“We have committed mistakes, too many. We have tried to do my best Y we have failed. Our country is too poor, the 90% of the population It has not been banked and we have not had a census for 14 years. We are doing everything possible to fix everything that was wrong for decades in a week. Including hospitals that were literally falling, “he wrote Bukele on your Facebook account.
“We got money, which is not the one approved by the Assembly, because that has not even been achieved and much less have approved expenses (that by decree they are the only ones who can approve it). Of the money that we got on our own we decided to give $ 300 dollars each family needed, but it has been almost impossible, “he added.
“Choosing between the virus and hunger”
The president stated that without a census and without bank accounts where deposit the money addressed to feeding of a 75% of the population It is very difficult to deliver the bonds that you promised.
“Because if we say that go in order, all arrive at collect in disorder because they have hungry and they live in poverty and it is understood. Although we were not the ones who made them poor, nor were we the ones who did not register them or guilty that you never worked on culture, for us to go organized and we could go into a bank branch in order, “Bukele said.
“90% of the people who have come to the banks did not even have to go today. Most of the people who came to the CENADE I was going to bring the money, when we always said that it wouldn’t be delivered there money…. I know that most do not have to eat and would be to choose between the virus or hunger. And we try to design systems to bring you that money and it’s failure after failure.
Worst of all is that the infection It has not yet reached its most critical point, not even close. How will our country be in 2 weeks? And in 3? God help us. Although I don’t know if we deserve it“he concluded.
Friday night, the Salvadoran president announced the launch of a website where citizens they had to enter their number identification document to know if they were beneficiaries of the bond, but the same collapse by the amount of income.
One of the main gatherings took place at CENADE in the Salvadoran capital, where people were unable to maintain their distance recommended for avoid contagion and some did not carry masks.
The spirits were heated when the president Bukele announced the closure of these centers due to the agglomeration.
Members of the Order Maintenance Unit (UMO), a corps of riot gear of the National Civil Police (PNC).
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Different local media reported similar agglomerations in the cities of Santa Ana (northwest), San Miguel (east) and Soyapango (center). A video was broadcast on the latter site in which an agent from the Police spray pepper spray to people trying to enter.
The Savior added on Sunday 30 confirmed cases of COVID-19 and Congress extended the status of exception as a measure to avoid propagation of said disease.
To date, no deaths have been reported due to the pandemic of COVID-19 in The Savior, where more than 3,900 people are in quarantine and 12 suspected cases are reported.
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