El Salvador records a rate of between 2.3 and 2.4 homicides per 100,000 inhabitants, according to the Police

The Savior records a rate of homicides of between 2.3 and 2.4 per 100,000 inhabitants, as revealed this July by the head of the National Civil Police (PNC), Mauricio Arriaza Chicas, who further revealed that this Central American country is an “international reference of security”.

“Reaching this level of rate per 100 thousand inhabitants, We are talking about El Salvador being an international reference in terms of security (…) We’re saying we’re the safest country in all of America, because that’s how we consider it.”stated in statements shared by the Presidency.

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Arriaza Chicas did not detail how many homicides have been recorded so far in 2023, but noted that “We are at 452 days of homicides so far in the 2019-2023 presidential period.”

The director of the PNC attributed the decrease in deaths to the government’s Territorial Control plan and an emergency regime measure, implemented since March 2022 after an increase in homicides on a weekend and with which it seeks to combat gangs.

The Salvadoran president, Nayib Bukeledefended what has become his security policy before the UN General Assembly on Tuesday and said his government He had suffered “systematic attacks” due to security decisions.

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The Legislative Assembly, with a large pro-government majority, recently approved the eighteenth extension of the emergency regime, with the justification that “the threat of a possible grouping” of gang structures persists.

According to official data, this measure left more than 72,600 people detained, whom the Government accuses of belonging to gangs, while humanitarian organizations report more than 5,000 “direct victims” of human rights abuses, mainly due to arbitrary arrests.

Of the more than 72,600 detainees, at least 7,000 were released, As stated last August by the Minister of Security, Gustavo Villatoro.

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El Salvador recorded 95 homicides between January and the beginning of May, as official representative Rebeca Santos stated at the time.

Source: Elcomercio

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