English transcript

President Bukele, we wanted to ask you just

as international human rights organizations

have warned, in Chile there are also those who

question the so-called Bukele method for improving

security. We are not ignoring what you have

highlighted, but how do you respond to the criticisms

regarding human rights violations in this country?

Yes, I have always said that all human beings

have rights, and these are rights that are innate

to humans, that's why they're called human rights.

Others call them natural rights. Others call

them fundamental rights. And we all have them?

Prisoners have them. Criminals have them. Drug

traffickers have them. Gang members have them.

Rapists have them. Murderers have them. People

who have cut off three heads in the street have

them. Those who have planted bombs in places

where there are children have them. Those who

have committed massacres have them. They have

them. They have human rights. There are people

who say they don't, but I believe they do have

them. It disgusts me, but I accept it. They

have them. But what I don't understand is why

the focus is always on their human rights, which

they do have. But why is the focus always on

the human rights of those who massacre, those

who kill children, those who rape women, those

who cut off heads?

Why are they, the ones who have human rights,

the sole priority of human rights organizations?

Because here in El Salvador, they killed hundreds

of thousands of people, raped women, murdered

children. There are stories, like a young woman

we're helping right now, who has no arms because

gang members threw a bomb at her mother for

not paying. Her mother died, and she lost her

arms in the explosion. An elderly woman had

her hands cut off because she hadn't paid, and

now she has no hands but still works to move

her life forward?

And no one looked out for their rights. Hundreds

of thousands of Salvadorans died, and if we

look at other countries, it would be millions.

People who weren't hurting anyone. They were

working, just walking down the street. Suddenly,

three criminals showed up and tried to rape

a woman to death. And I ask, do they have human

rights?

Yes, yes, they do. But what about the woman

who was raped and murdered?

For those three people, not a single human rights

organization came and said, Look, you need...