El Salvador’s Hardline President Manages to Do the Unthinkable: Wipe Out Country’s Rampant Gang Violence
Officials from other Latin American countries have voiced their intentions to imitate Mr. Bukele’s anti-crime measures.
Initially criticized as inhumane, the hard-line crime-fighting policies enacted by the president of El Salvador, Nayib Bukele, are now being applauded across Latin America and returning a semblance of law and order to a country once plagued by some of the worst gang violence in the world.
“We close May 10, 2023, with zero homicides nationwide,” Mr. Bukele wrote on his Twitter account last week. “With this, it’s 365 days without homicides, a whole year.”
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