The president of El Salvador, Nayib Bukele, has confirmed that November closed with a balance of 13 homicides, making it the «safest» month in the history of the Central American country.
«If we annualize the homicide rate for November, El Salvador would have 2.5 homicides per 100,000 inhabitants per year», celebrated the president, thus highlighting his controversial security plan to put an end to armed crime.
According to Bukele himself on his Twitter profile, El Salvador was until recently «the most dangerous country in the world,» and has now become the «safest nation in Latin America.
The president shared a graph detailing homicides per day for the entire month of November over the last five years. November 2022 is by far the November with the fewest deaths.
According to this scheme, the month of November 2018 was the deadliest in recent years, with 365 homicides; after it comes 2019, with 137 deaths; in 2020 there were 99; while the month of November 2021 accumulated 124 homicides.
The president decreed a state of emergency at the end of March — when the country registered up to 62 homicides in just one day — which has been extended in recent months and under which more than 50,000 alleged gang members have been arrested.
