President Nayib Bukele has transformed El Salvador from one of the most dangerous places in the world—a tropical hellhole with a murder rate fit for a Middle Eastern warzone—to one of the safest countries in the Americas. He did it by applying one basic principle: lock up the most violent people in society, then throw away the key.
Bukele was aided by the fact that most crime in his country was committed by members of ultra-violent gangs like MS-13 and Barrio 18, who conveniently advertise their allegiance and their crimes with lurid tattoos all over their bodies. Unlike a Brooklyn hipster with Vory v Zakone code on his arms and knuckles, a Salvadoran man does not have “MS-13” tattooed on his forehead unless he is an actual member of the gang.
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