Here is a mostly reliable article on the violence in El Salvador. One thing, though, is stupid:
During [Nayib Bukele’s] first 150 days in office, the murder rate has dropped precipitously. The first seven months of 2019 were the least violent months in the last 15 years (except for 2013 and the 2012 gang truce). On July 31, not a single killing was recorded—only the eighth murder-free day in 19 years.
This is baloney. The authorities have come up with an inventive way of counting murders to pretend that the murder rate has been halved. But it’s completely fake.
It makes zero sense that murder rates would drop in a situation where absolutely nothing has changed.
