🇸🇻 El Salvador:
“We have reached 300 days without homicides! To put it in context, the previous government did not have a single day without homicides, and the one before that only had one. A day without homicides in 10 years. But, thank God, we now live in a different country." This is how the president @nayibbukele reacted when confirming that El Salvador reached the unprecedented figure of 300 days without violent deaths on Tuesday. In effect, 15 years of the ARENA and FMLN governments have been left behind, in which there were only two days without homicides.

With these figures, 2023 is emerging as one of the safest years, January 2023 became the safest month in the 201-year history of El Salvador, closing with 11 homicides.

The authorities attribute these achievements to the implementation of the Territorial Control Plan and the exception regime. These security measures allowed 100 days without murders to be reached on May 14, 2022, and 200 on September 20 of the same year.

🇸🇻 ❌️ 🏴 El Salvador, population 6M, has gone 300 days without any homicides. Before Bukele took over, it was considered the most dangerous in the world. There were 382 homicides in the city of Los Angeles (3.8M pop) last year.

El Salvador now has the lowest murder rate in the Americas.

The previous administration - the one that the United States backed - didn't have a single day without homicides - in 4 years.

They called Bukele a tyrant. They said he was anti democracy. Funny how El Salvador now has peace and Bukele has an > 90% approval rating.

What's behind this unprecedented drop in violent crime? An unprecedented crack down on gang violence. Over 61,000 people have been detained.

90 people died in police custody in November 2022 alone. To sum up why the homicide rate in El Salvador has cratered: they're getting rid of all the criminals.

Petty criminals are being imprisoned, violent criminals are being killed in police custody. A zero tolerance purge.

They changed the homicide definition/ to exclude:

- People killed in police custody
- People who die in prison
- People who die in confrontations with police

Are state executions without due process a good thing? Is El Salvador's homicide rate dropping? Yes.

- Calvin 🏴‍☠️

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1625983166702919680.html

🇸🇻 In El Salvador a Police Dept director said: "The Policeman is a street judge who has criteria to arrest, identify and individualize any person"

📎 PNC El Salvador

🇸🇻 Carl B Menger:
"Hitchhiking with the police in El Salvador. Gotta 🧡 this country."

🇸🇻 "Quite amusing how El Salvador has become the safest place in the Americas almost overnight by having police jail/shoot gang members instead of not doing that"

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🚨 US State Department Spoksman Ned Price said: “We are prepared, willing, and able to take action ourselves if the Taliban are unable or unwilling to take action against Al-Qaeda and other terrorist groups in Afghanistan.”

“Taliban has a commitment. It has made private commitments, it has made public commitments to uphold that it not allow Afghanistan’s territory to be used as a safe haven for those who would plot against the United States.” 🇺🇸⚡️🏳️

🏳️‍ Kabul vs Kandahar entered round 2. Kabul 2, Kandahar 1. For months now, Taliban leaders in Kabul has been in discussions with the Western diplomats & former Republic officials to boot out Haibatullah and form a govt in line with the US-Taliban deal in Doha.

📎 BILAL SARWARY

🏳️‍ What began as whispers & rumors of rifts within the Taliban’s ranks, have now turned into words of soft weapons spoken behind the mics. How long before the actual weapons are pointing at each other?

📎 BILAL SARWARY

🇺🇸 🏳️‍ U.S. envoy apologizes for suggesting Afghan women may need 'Black Girl Magic'

Karen Decker's comments were seen by some on social media as minimizing the experience of Afghan women whose rights have been rolled back since the Taliban swept to power.

“Sometimes, our best intentions go awry because we haven’t listened enough or don’t truly understand others’ lived experience,” Karen Decker, the chargé d’affaires of the U.S. mission to Afghanistan, said Thursday on Twitter. “My efforts to celebrate courageous African Americans this month fall in that category. I apologize to any and all who I may have offended or hurt.”

State Department spokesman Ned Price said at a briefing Wednesday that the tweets were drafted by Decker alone and that they were not cleared with the department.

“I will say that there’s sentiments in her tweet thread that one can appreciate,” Price said. “I think the messaging in this context is rather inappropriate and ineffective, and it is not messaging that we would issue from here.”

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/us-envoy-apologizes-afghan-women-black-girl-magic-rcna71141

🇺🇸 🏳️‍ US State Dept Spokesman Ned Price, in press briefing, said US can take action if Taliban don't fulfil commitments of not allowing Afghan soil to be used by groups like Al Qaeda.