US EditionEl Salvador: Records Lowest Homicide Rate on Record, Government Says
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El Salvador recorded its lowest homicide rate in 2025 since records began, the government of President Nayib Bukele said on Monday. Since March 2022, President Bukele has been waging a “war” against gangs based on a state of emergency that allows arrests without warrants, but has led to a series of human rights violations, as reported by non-governmental organizations. The homicide rate fell to 1.3 per 100,000 inhabitants last year, from 1.9 in …
The homicide rate in El Salvador fell to 1.3 per 100,000 inhabitants last year, from 1.9 in 2024, following the war declared against gangs, according to the government.
He highlighted the sustained reduction of homicides since 2019, the impact of the Territorial Control Plan and the emergency regime, as well as the almost disappearance of crimes such as extortion. – President Nayib Bukele said that El Salvador went from being “the world capital of murder” to becoming the safest country in the Western Hemisphere, defending the results of its security policy against analysis that, he said, are based on incomplete…
Security Minister Gustavo Villatoro reported that El Salvador closed the year 2025 with 82 intentional homicides, an unprecedented figure in the recent history of the country. According to official data, during the administration of President Nayib Bukele there have been 1,102 days without homicides, of which 988 occurred during the Emergency Regime. According to Villatoro, these figures confirm that the gangs maintained the criminal monopoly in…
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