Patricia Bullrich live a moment of high political profile. It moves to build an internal power project within the PROwith the aim of directing a fusion With Freedom Advance. And he leads the Ministry of National Security for the second time in his life. He does it with back of the president Javier Milei, who gave him free rein to manage his own public agenda. Tonight, she stamped a photo illustrating that frame. She met alone with Nayib Bukelethe recently re-elected president of El Salvador, recognized for his heavy-handed policy to combat the “Maras” in his country.
It is not usual for a minister to meet face to face with a President of another country. At most, it is usually done by the chancellor, as diplomatic head, or by the ambassador that a Nation appoints to a foreign State. That particularity assigns political weight to Bullrich, who traveled to El Salvador with the full support of Milei. He was in “permanent contact” with the Head of State, to whom he told details of the visit to the Salvadoran.
Bullrich landed on Sunday at the San Óscar Arnulfo Romero y Galdámez International Airport, in San Salvador. She traveled escorted by a small entourage of advisors and leaders of her small circle. She was accompanied by the Buenos Aires legislator from the PRO Juan Pablo Arenazaa man of his utmost confidence, and the officials of the Ministry of Security Alberto Föhrigresponsible for the International Cooperation Area, Ricardo Ferrer PicadoNational Director of Criminal Intelligence, and Julian Curihead of the Federal Penitentiary Service.
The meeting with Bukele took place this afternoon and was the most important item on Bullrich’s agenda in San Salvador. They both talked about security and political issues. The minister explored the Salvadoran leader’s efforts to combat organized crime. Before the meeting in the presidential office, the Argentine delegation had visited the Terrorism Containment Center (CECOT), the largest prison in America. It was after touring the National Academy of Public Security.
The official assessed the state of the prison and the security institution before Bukele. In another part of the conversation, the leaders discussed current events in Argentina and the direction of the Milei Government. The Argentine President was in El Salvador on June 1 during the inauguration of the second term of his Caribbean counterpart.
Meanwhile, the Minister of Security was the second time who met with Bukele. The first meeting had been in February, during an international forum in the United States. There they established a political bond and the possibility of a trip to El Salvador arose. Finally, the visit took place today.
Bullrich signed an international agreement with the Ministry of Justice and Public Security of the Republic of El Salvador for the securing their states against organized crime groups transnational. This is an agreement that seeks to develop a focused interstate work for the prevention and fight against transnational organized crime in all its forms.
During the day, Bullrich also held meetings at the Ministry of Defense and the Ministry of Justice and Security of El Salvador. First, with Francis Merino Monroy, and then with Gustavo Villatoro, his counterpart from that country. In turn, throughout the tour he had conclaves with the leadership of the police, justice and Salvadoran intelligence.
Something significant about the visit of the Argentine delegation was that the Bukele shared on his official X account a video of Bullrich in the presidential palace. “One heard about El Salvador nothing but death, destruction and what the Maras were like. The territorial control that they had and the way in which they had the country under their yoke,” expressed the Minister of Security of Argentina in the tape and continued: “Since Bukele has been president this has changed in an impressive way. From being one of the most insecure countries in the world to being one of the safest. This is achieved with legislative changes and bringing the security forces and the armed forces to the place where they need to be, and with political will. “Congratulations Bukele for having restored peace to Salvadoran families.”
Bullrich added a photo that consolidates its high political profile. She is one of the ministers with the greatest support from Milei himself. And she sealed a meeting with a leader valued by the libertarian electorate, for whom the “iron fist” policies and public order They are priorities.
The photo with Bukele was, in turn, the same day that the national deputies of Unión por la Patria presented a criminal complaint against Bullrich for the actions of the police last Wednesday, during the debate in the Senate of the Bases Law. The opposition demands for the arrest of 17 people who were demonstrating in Congress Square to reject the Government’s regulatory project.
To the denunciation of the Peronist legislators was added a presentation of International Amnesty before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights. That organization had sent a letter to G7, a forum in which Milei participated last week, in which he urged the heads of state of that group to address the human rights situation in Argentina. “The organization expresses concern about the government’s attacks against the human rights agenda,” Amnesty said. While the organization objects that they were “violated” the constitutional guarantees of the people detained in the framework of the protests against the Bases Law.
From El Salvador, Bullrich maintained his position and doubled down. “The violent people who wanted to impose themselves on the law now have the hypocrisy to make a complaint. They go in to give orders to the Prefecture, encourage and endorse violencethey used power saying “I’m a deputy, dad,” and then the hypocrites denounce you,” the minister pointed out against the Unión por la Patria deputies.
The minister and her entourage will return to Buenos Aires tomorrow morning to resume the domestic management agenda. Bullrich will be present in Rosario on Thursday, to accompany Milei at the Flag Day event. At the same time, he organizes a political event for July in La Plata, together with PRO leaders aligned with bullrichismo and representatives of La Libertad Avanza.
