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El Salvador president's bold moves slash crime rates dramatically
The president of El Salvador fights crime Nayib Bukele took power over El Salvador in 2019. Since then, the president has been actively combating crime. His project, "Zero Leisure," mandates that ...
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South Africa’s worst crime can plummet if the country takes action
South Africa can learn from El Salvador, which changed from the “murder capital of the world” to having one of the lowest ...
Salvadoran court sentences 3 youths to prison after they appeared in video making gang signs
A court in El Salvador has sentenced three youths to five years in prison and put five more on probation after they were arrested last year following the public release of a video of them making gang ...
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Crime’s Plunge and Bitcoin’s Boom Still Leave El Salvador Chasing Economic Miracle
El Salvador has the highest per capita incarceration rate in the world ... to 3.4 million visitors, as fear of crime recedes. Money is also pouring into the nation’s housing market.
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El Salvador’s Nayib Bukele shows Latin America the way
Applied per 100,000 people, El Salvador’s homicide rate is now one-tenth that of Mexico ... ruthless crackdown on the MS-13 and 18th Street crime gangs that turned El Salvador into a dystopia.
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El Salvador
The smallest country in Central America geographically, El Salvador has the fourth largest ... in 2015-17 with an average annual growth rate of 2.4%. Remittances accounted for approximately ...
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In Defense of El Salvador's Nayib Bukele
El Salvador was, per former President Donald Trump’s rhetorical dexterity, considered one of the “sh*thole countries.” It had the highest crime and murder rate in the region, and was one of ...