Over the course of just a few years, Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele transformed his country with a tough-on-crime approach from the “murder capital of the world” into one of the safest nations in the Western Hemisphere, closing out last year with the lowest homicide rate on record.
In 2015, nearly four years before Bukele took office, the country saw 6,656 people murdered. Last year, there were only 114 homicides recorded.
Having both effectively neutralized the gangs that once terrorized El Salvador and built a gargantuan prison complex to accommodate his country’s criminal elements, Bukele is apparently keen now to onshore America’s problems, specifically its deportees and criminals — of any nationality.
