Posted on 08/28/2023 8:02:18 PM PDT by grundle
SAN SALVADOR, Jan 3 (Reuters) - Murders in El Salvador tumbled 56.8% in 2022 amid a widespread crackdown on gang violence, the government said on Tuesday, extending a sharp drop in killings in a nation which for years had one of the world's worst murder rates.
Authorities registered a total of 496 homicides last year, down from 1,147 in 2021, Defense Minister Francis Merino said.
The tally does not count deaths of gang members killed in encounters with security forces, which would raise the total to 600.
The government did not provide a homicide rate, but in any case the numbers are a sharp drop from a peak of 103 killings per 100,000 residents in 2015, according to government data.
President Nayib Bukele asked Congress to approve a temporary state of emergency after a surge in violence in March, suspending certain constitutional rights in order to combat the notorious Barrio 18 and MS-13 gangs.
The controversial measure, which has been extended numerous times and remains in effect, set off a militarized offensive that has led to over 60,000 arrests of alleged gang affiliates.
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Rudy did the same thing in NYC.
What a novel approach, making crime illegal, and enforcing the laws.
Probably dropped in half more because those murderers have come to the US at Biden’s invitation.
These Central American nations should be paradises.
No excuse for them to be crime ridden crapholes.
I’ve seen pics of their new prisons where they’re all Lind up close together on their hands and knees on command wearing nothing but boxer shorts. If I were in charge they wouldn’t even be wearing them. See who has the biggest hard-on.
WOW! So locking the feral animals away from decent citizens really works! It’s SCIENCE!
I would feed them only a vitamin pill, oatmeal, and water.
Bukele is awesome. El Salvador may become a viable escape from the misery that will soon be coming to USA
The only reason criminal gangs are allowed to exists in any country is because the powers that be, the snakes in government, extort protection money from these gangs.
Probably most of those gang members are now in the U.S.
True, but in El Salvador, the vigilante mobs started administering their own justice.
The government had to do something because when justice is being administered by mobs of vigilantes, it turns out that a wide array of crimes carry the death penalty.
Coming soon to America.
Plenty of video around...showing ‘street-justice’ dispensed. Once people start carrying weapons and not hesitating to fire....the game was over.
So... All those murderers must have ended up going somewhere... I wonder where they went to? Hmm!
Doing it right produces results and saves innocent lives!..
Not liked by our leftists.
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