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The National Civil Police (PNC) reported that March 21 ended with zero homicides throughout Salvadoran territory.

“We ended Thursday, March 21, with 0 homicides in the country,” the police reiterated from their social networks.

#CRONIO 16 days with zero homicides were recorded in March, after ending Thursday the 21st without murders throughout the country, reports the @PNCSV.

More than 580 days without crimes are recorded in the President’s administration @nayibbukele. pic.twitter.com/fPLC2CdJCM

— Cronio Digital Newspaper (@croniosv) March 22, 2024

According to data released by the president-elect, Nayib Bukele, the country once again stands out for its historic security results that continue to position it as the safest nation in the Western Hemisphere.

It is worth mentioning that the German global platform Statista highlighted El Salvador among 22 nations for how it closed 2023, with a homicide rate of 2.4 per 100,000 inhabitants.

2023 closed as the safest year in Salvadoran history, after ending with a rate of 2.4 homicides per 100,000 inhabitants, a figure very distant from the one that ended in 2015 when it was 106.82 per 100,000 inhabitants.

For its part, the international news agency “Visegrad 24” highlighted in one of its publications the historical reduction in the average number of murders currently recorded in El Salvador as part of the results of the citizen security strategy implemented by President Nayib Bukele. .

«Five years after Nayib Bukele won power in El Salvador, the country now has the lowest homicide rate in America. It went from 52 per 100,000 inhabitants in 2018 to 1.5 today,” said media published.

The PNC has detailed that after almost five years of the president’s administration, 574 days have been reported in which no homicides have been recorded in the country, thanks to the Territorial Control Plan (PCT), launched on June 20, 2019. , and to the emergency regime that was approved by the Legislative Assembly.

These security strategies, in their first phase, showed good results by reducing the average number of homicides per day. Last year it was 0.4 every day.