Homicide rate in El Salvador 2014-2022

"Bukele has cultivated a “tough-on-crime” image, imposing harsh policies on the rest of the population. In March last year, he suspended constitutional rights in the country, empowering Salvadoran security forces to jail citizens simply on suspicion of being part of a gang.

Incarceration figures have consequently soared. By mid-2022, up to 2% of El Salvador’s population 18 and older, or roughly 100,000 people, was in prison, according to an Amnesty international assessment based on local media reports.

According to government figures, more than 60,000 people were sent to prison since the state of emergency was declared – over 150 people per day – causing alarm among human rights activists, who say the rationale for some arrests is insufficient."

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