In 2015, El Salvador had the highest homicide rate in the Western Hemisphere. Today, it has the 2nd lowest — only Canada is safer So how did this transformation happen? And — more importantly — why do so many politicians hate the man responsible for it?... See more

Για δείτε τι έγινε στο Σαλβαδόρ που έβαλε τους εγκληματίες στη φυλακή. Μειώθηκαν οι ανθρωποκτονίες. Σοκαριστικό ε; Απορώ γιατί δεν εφαρμόζουν τον δικό μας ποινικό κώδικα, που θες μέσο για να μπεις στη φυλακή. https://t.co/V6BrgL9tkO

In 2015, Brazil had as many murders as all the blue countries combined https://t.co/XGj3YxLiIh

Surprisingly, Brazilian homicide rates declined in the first decade of the twenty-first century. Rates had been increasing steadily during the 1980s and 1990s, rising to 25.7 per 100,000 population in 2003. But under the Lula government there was some improvement, with numbers dropping back to a low of 22 per 100,000 by 2010. Several trends explain

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