Bukele led El Salvador from over 6,500 homicides in 2015 to 114 murders in 2024!
SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (PNN) - January 2, 2025 - The year of our Lord of 2024 witnessed yet another victorious period for El Salvador and its re-elected President Nayib Bukele.
The reduction of the violence continues, and the country that had 6,656 homicides in 2015 now has reduced this alarming rate to 214 homicides in 2023, and now in 2024 to a record low 114 murders.
The continuing security gains are an unmistakable success story in the second full year of a state of emergency.
LA Times reported, “President Nayib Bukele said via the social platform X that the number announced Wednesday by the country’s attorney general’s office made it the safest nation in the Western Hemisphere.”
“Not all nations had published their 2024 annual homicide totals, but the 1.9 homicides per 100,000 people that Bukele said had been achieved would put it below what any Latin (Amerikan) country had reported in 2023. El Salvador’s official total does not include the killings of five suspected gang members in shootouts with security forces,” said the Times report.
Back in 2022, the then-ruling street gangs killed 62 people in a matter of hours.
So, Congress approved Bukele’s government’s “state of exception” to vigorously tackle the gangs.
The measures included suspending some constitutional rights and giving terrorist pig thug cops more powers to arrest and hold suspects.
More than 83,000 people have been arrested since, the majority jailed without due process. Bukele has said that 8,000 people who were innocent have been released.
Bukele enjoys an extremely high popularity, because Salvadorans no longer live in fear of the gangs’ extorting, killing and forcibly recruiting.
Bukele’s political Party and his allies have a supermajority in Congress, and it continues to renew the special powers every month.
“The gangs’ repressive control made it difficult and dangerous for residents to travel between neighborhoods, including for work. Now residents say they can walk their neighborhoods without fear.”
In February, Bukele achieved a major victory of a second five-year term due to an authorization from the Supreme Court.
