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The homicide rate in El Salvador has plummeted drastically since 2015. The 2022 Salvadoran gang crackdown has led the country to have the highest incarceration rate in the world at 1086 people per 100 000 with an estimated 1.6% of the country's total population said to be currently incarcerated.
The Salvadoran gang crackdown, known in El Salvador as the State of Exception (Spanish: régimen de excepción) or the War Against the Gangs (guerra contra las pandillas), began on 27 March 2022 in response to a series of homicides committed by criminal gangs between 25 and 27 March 2022 which killed 87 people.
Violent crime is rampant in El Salvador, in 2012 the homicide rate peaked at 105 homicides per 100,000 residents. In 2016, the rate decreased by 20%, but El Salvador has gotten better over the years. The new president, Nayib Bukele has transformed the gang ridden country into "the safest country in the western hemisphere".
According to journalist C. Ramos, more violent deaths occurred during the 1990s than occurred during the civil war; During the 1960s and 1970s, the country's homicide rate was 30 homicides per 100,000 inhabitants, meanwhile, from 1994 to 1997, the rate was 80 homicides per 100,000 inhabitants. [7]
El Salvador's new president said his country is trying to reduce irregular migration and fight crime and drug trafficking, and deserves to be treated differently than nearby countries. In remarks ...
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Brutal 'mara' street gangs and chronic poverty have made El Salvador one of the most murderous countries on the planet, but the growth of evangelical Christianity behind bars is giving gangsters a ...
The 2020 Salvadoran protests were minor protests by workers, unions, doctors and students calling for the resignation of president Nayib Bukele over the 2020 Salvadoran political crisis and murder, unpaid wages and delay of payments, internet services, working conditions, crime and many more issues in El Salvador.