⚡️Nayib Bukele reported that in 2024, the homicide rate in El Salvador was 1.9 per 100,000 inhabitants, highlighting that no murders occurred throughout the entire country on the last day of the year. In 2015, the homicide rate was 106.3 per 100,000 inhabitants. With this milestone, El Salvador stands out as the safest country in the entire Western Hemisphere.
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These are nice numbers but isn't it too beautiful to be true? It's a huge change to achieve not only within a year but probably longer period of time. People don't change that fast
What did the government do? What changes did they implement? I hope it's not a change of how they measure that
And of course it's shady
"Justice and Security Minister Gustavo Villatoro said 154 murders were committed [2023], down from 495 the year before.
That implies a homicide rate of 2.4 per every 100,000 people, which Villatoro said was the lowest in the Americas apart from Canada."
This would mean 1.9 at the end of the year only 0.5 difference (but then 2023 would still have this improvement)
But
"But human rights groups have said the crackdown has included abuses such as torture, deaths in custody and arbitrary detentions."
And
"Human rights groups have reported 190 deaths and over 5,000 abuses related to the crackdown."
I am once again disappointed with your reporting it. It was basically copy-paste of official propaganda. You can do better
They simply reassigned murders from gangs to the police and so on paper the numbers look nicer