"The country once known for having the world’s highest murder rate now has the world’s highest incarceration rate."
Homicide down 92%
90% approval
44% decline migration to US
El Salvador won its war on crime. "Rights groups" and criminals hit hardest. https://t.co/YJdx7IPFDEwsj.com/articles/the-c…
Ecuador has seen its murder rate quadruple between 2019 and 2022.
Local mayor: “It’s simple, just copy him. Do what Bukele’s doing."
The rest of Latin America is waking up.
Children can play outside without parents asking permission from gangs. Businesses no longer pay extortion.
Delivery man no longer has his tips stolen from him.
This is what "human rights" groups fight against.
An "indigenous spiritual leader" whose son is admittedly a member of MS-13 doesn't approve.
"In another video, police officers smash headstones at a cemetery to eliminate gang insignia on the graves of dead members."
Love it. These scumbags got to terrorize the country and then were honored for it in death.
Bukele is even tough on dead criminals.
"Rights groups said the government should boost spending on social programs for young people and on gangster rehabilitation, instead of focusing on punitive measures and mass incarceration."
Lol, these people are a cancer.
"Extortion had become so institutionalized that Ramirez said a bank asked him for detailed information on payments to gangs when he once applied for a business loan." 3K transport workers killed in 20 yrs.
This is just amazing. Society tolerated this until one man sad enough.
I wrote about Bukele's success here.
Left-wing ideas about the causes and solutions to crime are just wrong. People need to stop listening to them. richardhanania.com/p/the-midwit-m…
It gets better. Bukele sent prisoners to smash the headstones.
Now normal people can even use the cemetery, because the gang members aren’t gathering around smoking a blunt for their fallen homie. https://t.co/yiZl48DNFSbbc.com/news/world-lat…
And here’s the first article in the series on Bukele’s success. richardhanania.com/p/the-invisibl…
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