Thousands of Salvadorans gathered in the outskirts of San Salvador to demand the country's congress to approve a $109m loan to better equip the police and military forces.

Crowds turned up outside of the Legislative Palace on February as President Nayib Bukele gave a speech demanding for the loan deal to be approved.

El Salvador has one of the highest murder rates in the world.

Thousands of Salvadorans have concentrated on the outskirts of the Legislative Palace building, before the call made by President Nayib Bukele, to pressure congressional deputies to approve a loan for $ 109 million dollars, to implement the third phase of the Plan Territorial Control, which seeks to reduce the homicide rate and the actions of gangs. Bukele convened the Council of Ministers, who requested the extraordinary session of Congress invoking article 87 of the Constitution. The President has told the attending citizens that if they do not approve the loan in a week "I am not going to put myself in your midst and article 87 of the Constitution," he reiterated, referring to the right to insurrection.