Why is Bukele so popular??? This guy is awful and has a rather one dimensional solution for dealing with crime, which is more prisons.
Homicides in El Salvador
Year Per 100k inhabitants Total
2015 106.3
2016 84.1
2017 83.0
2018 53.1 3,346
2019 38.0 2,398
2020 21.2 1,341
2021 18.1 1,147
2022 7.8 495
And before you say that crime has been dropping before him, the fact is that going from 106 to 38 is a 65% reduction in crime but it still remained one of the worst places in latin america. Going from 38 to 7,8 is like a 80% reduction in homicides and actually makes El Salvador one of the safest in the region.
Not endorsing him or anything but I can see why he's so popular
