In terms of reducing homicides, 12 days without fatalities have been reported so far in December, nine of them in a row.
Authorities attribute these results to the efficiency in the application of the emergency regime and the Territorial Control Plan (PCR), which have already enabled the arrest of almost 75,000 suspected gang members and collaborators.
Along with the high number of arrests, the PNC and the armed forces seized 3,559 firearms of various calibers, 6,889 vehicles, 18,824 cell phones and $3.3 million in cash from the terrorist groups, according to official figures.
A few years ago, the country had the record murder rate of a nation without war; This year there has been a historic decline, says an editorial in the newspaper El Mundo today.
But this year we are seeing a noticeable decline in homicides. Through November, the PNC counted just 172 murders so far this year and this month it recorded just 11 murders, the release said.
El Salvador is on track to end 12 months with a rate of murderous violence that will be between 2.2 and 2.4 homicides per 100,000 residents, a rate well below the Latin American average.
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