Posted on 02/07/2026 6:08:19 AM PST by yesthatjallen
El Salvador earns the U.S. State Department's top safety rating amid harsh crackdown on gangs, while European countries face rising security threats.
The U.S. State Department has dramatically updated its travel advisory for El Salvador, granting the country a Level 1 safety rating—its highest—making it now safer than many European nations, including France, Germany, the United Kingdom, Spain, Italy, the Netherlands, and Sweden.
These countries, which all remain at Level 2, continue to warn travelers to 'exercise increased caution.' This marks a stark contrast, particularly as the advisory highlights the escalating risk of terrorism in these European nations, compounded by ongoing civil unrest and riots in France and Spain.
The sharp shift in El Salvador's safety status comes after the government, under President Nayib Bukele, initiated an aggressive and unprecedented anti-gang operation.
These measures have significantly reduced the country’s crime rates.
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A nation’s civility and safety is inversely proportional to the population of a certain religion that infects that nation.
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That is a very impressive bit of information. People need to stop, think and ask some questions WHY.
Quickly! Get some refugees in to El Salvador!!!
Spare on expense!
The UK belongs at the bottom of the list— below even China.
“The sharp shift in El Salvador’s safety status comes after the government, under President Nayib Bukele, initiated an aggressive and unprecedented anti-gang operation.
These measures have significantly reduced the country’s crime rates.”
Who’d ever thunk it that putting criminals out of circulation makes a place a lot safer! What a discovery!
Guessing not a lot of mooselimbs? Yet!
Gee, law & order coupled with serious consequences leads to an orderly & more free society.
Who’s a thunk it?!
Bukele turned El Salvador into one of the safest countries in the world. Prior to his taking charge, El Salvador was one of the most dangerous countries in the world.
The number one cause of crime is liberalism.
I know people in other Central and South American countries who claim El Salvador is a great place to vacation—now.
These people would rarely go there, before.
No Musloids?
One team arrived a few days after a lady in the church was murdered by a gang; her four kids ran to the police while her elderly mother and grandmother fled into the jungle. The kids identified the killers, leading to arrests, leading to fears of more violence from the gang striking back. The two women came out of the jungle to the mission station the same day the mission team arrived. The directors son sat up all night in the doorway with a rusty old shotgun for proteciton.
Now, I have literally been out on the streets in Santa Tecla at 3 AM with no concern whatever. The capitol is beautiful, with crowds coming downtown where street gangs used to hassle and threaten people crossing the street from one gang fief to another. The murder rate dropped from more than 12X here in the US to 1/5 our rate.
And all because one leader decided to fight crime rather than encourage it.
Great story, in all seriousness.
I’ve always wanted to vacation in the Americas and now its looking like I may have some options
Safer than NYC.
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