El Salvador has accumulated a record 365 days without killings, its president said File photo: President of El Salvador Nayib Bukele © Casa Presidencial El Salvador / Getty Images
President Nayib Bukele of El Salvador on Thursday announced an unprecedented homicide-free streak, adding up to 365 days since he took power nearly four years ago. The Latin American country was considered the world’s most violent as late as 2016.
“We concluded May 10, 2023 with 0 homicides nationwide,” Bukele said on Twitter. “With this, it’s 365 days without homicides, a whole year.”
The accompanying 90-second video called the development without precedent in El Salvador’s history. As of 2009, the country was considered the most violent in Latin America, with a killing every two hours. By 2015, it had over 6,600 homicides, the deadliest country in the world that wasn’t at war.
The homicide-free year was not consecutive, but rather cumulative over the four years of Bukele’s presidency. Before he took office in June 2019, the country had recorded only two days without a homicide in 15 years.
Now El Salvador is “the most secure country in Latin America,” argued the president.
Cerramos el 10 de mayo de 2023, con 0 homicidios a nivel nacional.
Con este, son 365 días sin homicidios, todo un año. pic.twitter.com/NlSqVxXdhx
— Nayib Bukele (@nayibbukele) May 11, 2023
“The country has never recorded such a cycle of peace, since its birth as a republic,” one Salvadoran social media influencer pointed out.
Bukele has attributed the drastic change to his ‘War on Gangs’. His government declared a state of emergency in March 2022, amid a major spike in gang violence in the nation of 6.5 million on the Pacific Ocean. Designating the notorious Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13), Barrio 18 and other gangs as terrorists, his government has so far jailed over 65,000 suspected criminals.
A mega-prison called the Center for the Confinement of Terrorism (CECOT), with the capacity to hold 40,000 convicts in maximum security, has been built outside the capital.
Parallel to the crackdown on gangs, Bukele has embraced economic reforms, introducing Bitcoin as legal tender on par with the US dollar – over objections from the IMF – and abolishing all taxes and tariffs on the information technology sector.
Visiting El Salvador in March, AP reported that ordinary Salvadorans were relieved and enjoying their daily lives without being terrorized by organized crime. But the agency also quoted US-based human rights experts who worried about El Salvador becoming a “police state.” Bukele’s government did not respond to the outlet’s requests for comment. (RT)
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It’s only ok if the violent gangs in the streets are working for the violent gang called the government in the eyes of the global elite. Like the way it works in the US.
So maybe “ending cash bail” and “defunding the police” aren’t the way to go?
Still needs studying, hank johnson isn’t convinced. But he’s still a bit confused why Guam hasn’t tipped over yet.
That is because the murderers all came here lmao.
ZFG, out.
P.S. mow em down at the river.
IN the river. Gators gotta eat same as a buzzard or a worm.
No gators in the Rio Grande. Might be a good upgrade for the river.
It’s interesting to compare El Salvador to New York City:
El Salvador:
6.5 million people
6,600 homicides annually
65,000 in jail
New York City:
8.5 million people
500 homicides annually
Rikers Island jail holds 10,000, but is at 50% capacity; many others are held at prisons upstate.
The important question. Is NY infiltrated with the same extreme violent gangs as El Salvador?? I think not.
Not saying this to justify El Salvidor but that the comparison is somewhat squed
What a novel idea, putting violent criminals in jail. Maybe we should try that.
I think this article is full of shit. Lies and statistics, ya know. Didn’t it say that was over a 4 year stretch?
I’ve held my breath for as long as 12 minutes. OK, it wasn’t consecutive, but 15 seconds a day for 2 months, except for a few days that I forgot to do it.
American politicans: take notes!
It’s pretty easy to lower the murder rate in a third world shithole when you deport all your murdering scumbags across the border to the U.S.
Oh BS! the few dozen they had merely went unreported. Probably pretty easy to dispose of someone in El Salvador.
I was mugged in El Salvador back in the mid ’90’s. It was at a place called the devil’s door or something like that. A park with twin rock peaks.
It was mere kids who did it, probably not yet in their teens. two knives and a big ass revolver (or so I remember it).
They got a crappy camera and a few dollars in change. They missed both my wallet with all my traveler’s checks and my passport.
When the police came they went looking for the kids with submachine guns. I’m quite sure if they caught them, there would have been an extra-judicial killing.
I’m ok with that.
Sounds like the year we had recent where the flu just disappeared. Such a thing I tell ya…….
Hear me out. If putting violent criminals in prison sharply reduced violent crime, maybe putting pedophiles in prison would sharply reduce child molestation?
We could start with Epstein’s client list.
Their chief export to AmeriKa: Murderers or potential murderers.