How Did El Salvador End Crime?

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How Did El Salvador End Crime?

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Nov 17, 2024

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Politics & Ideologies

How Did El Salvador End Crime?

Notes From The Past

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March 14, 2024

For many years El Salvador was known as one of the most dangerous places to travel on earth. With the highest per capita murder rate in the world, the small Central American country seemed doomed to descend further into corruption and chaos. But this would all change in 2019, with the election of a young man named Nayib Bukele to the presidency.

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