'1,000 Days Without Homicides': Unfortunately, this headline doesn't refer to Washington, D.C., Chicago, or any city in the United States

PJ Media ^ | 09/01/2025 | Sarah Anderson

[SeekAndFind]

Unfortunately, this headline doesn't refer to Washington, D.C., Chicago, or any city in the United States. I'm sure the picture of el presidente Nayib Bukele gave it away, but this headline is about El Salvador. 

Over the weekend, Bukele announced on X that El Salvador has gone "1,000 days without homicides" since he took office. These aren't consecutive days, mind you, but they're a major improvement over what was going on in that country before his leadership began. Here is his full statement (translated from Spanish): 

1,000 days without homicides.

I was recommended to make a national broadcast and give a speech to commemorate this historic milestone: 1,000 days without homicides since the start of our Government. But I believe that instead of speeches, the best thing is for us to reflect today on what our country has experienced and on all the forces that tried to prevent us from reaching this point. Those who always say 'impossible!' are unaware of the power of asking God for wisdom and accepting to be instruments of Him.

Thank you, God! Without your will, NOTHING is possible.

Thanks also to the best Security Cabinet that our country has ever had and to the thousands of men and women of our National Civil Police and our Armed Forces, who risked their lives so that we can finally live in true PEACE.

Unfortunately, cities like D.C. and Chicago lack the type of leadership that might allow them to ever make these sorts of declarations. 

We all know the story by now. For decades, El Salvador was a violent hellhole; 90% of the country was overrun by gang members and other criminals.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: crime; elsalvador; homicide; nayeebbukele

[SeekAndFind]

[frank ballenger]

Do they count 15,000 “missing persons”? 😉

[V_TWIN]

Taterhead throwing our borders open for four years might of helped

[rktman]

Can’t say that about ‘berning man’. Prior to the yuge pyre, a body was found in a pool of blood. Sounds like foul play! LEO is investigating.

[Flaming Conservative]

There are plenty of small cities that rarely have murders. Two in the twenty years I’ve lived in my small town of 3500, one of which was domestic violence. Two of my adult children live about 35 miles from Chicago. No murders there, either. One lives in town of 8,000, the other in town of 32,000.

[FrankRizzo890]

This guy must be squeaky clean and have GREAT security. His example is making the globalists look bad, and as we all know, they can’t have that.

[traderrob6]

Pretty fair number of guns in El Salvador as well.

[marktwain]

I think the “Thousand days without homicide” means a total of a thousand days in which a homicide did not occur. It could happen over two thousand days in which a homicide occurred every other day, for example.

There is no question the El Salvador homicide rate plunged from over a 100 per 100 thousand people to under 2 per 100 thousand people. The homicide rate in the USA is about 5 -6 per 100 thousand people. Most of the perpetrators and victims in the USA are young black men

[Mr. Blond]

Are they full of Salvadorans?

[Flaming Conservative]

Ummm...no.

[woodpusher]

It could happen over two thousand days in which a homicide occurred every other day, for example.

June 1, 2019 to 31 August 2025 — 2283 days.