Summary
El Salvador ended 2024 with a record low 114 homicides, equivalent to 1.9 per 100,000 people, making it the safest country in the Western Hemisphere according to President Nayib Bukele.
The drop follows two years under a state of emergency aimed at eradicating gang violence, granting authorities sweeping powers but limiting civil rights.
Over 83,000 arrests have been made, though 354 detainees reportedly died in custody.
While criticized for human rights violations, Bukele’s crackdown has drastically improved security, boosting his popularity.
As much as I feel for innocent’s, the situation in El Salvador was bad: https://images.app.goo.gl/WWrXq7TXQWvqnuaV8
I feel like as harsh and authoritarian as Bulakes plan has been - ignoring mass violence on your people impacts a much greater magnitude of innocenta
Gotta raise up education and society at large though, can’t just toss everyone in jail
Well, if anything, Bukele actually could and did toss everyone in jail.