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(FILES) El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele speaks before some 14,000 soldiers gathered in a field near a military barracks on the outskirts of the town of San Juan Opico, 35 km west of San Salvador, on November 23, 2022. El Salvador's two-year state of emergency has created a spiraling human rights crisis, Amnesty International said on March 27, 2024, calling the country's war on gangs "disproportionate". In March 2022, President Nayib Bukele launched a crackdown on gang violence, imposing a state of emergency that suspended the need for arrest warrants, among other civil liberties. (Photo by Marvin RECINOS / AFP) (KEYSTONE/AFP/MARVIN RECINOS)