Your 28th amendment should be the introduction of compulsory and preferential voting.

Yeah, there's undoubtedly a range of contributing factors and this is a general trend, not stratified into crime type or age groups so the correlation may be stronger or weaker for different sub-groups.

Agreed. I read the book last year and have just picked it up again for a second reading.
It gets more relevant as the months tick by.
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Are they great again yet?

Most of the reduction in homicides happened during the four years before Bukele was first elected. After he was elected, he stopped using the Bogota Protocol to tally homicides, so many homicides no longer get counted as homicides, making the numbers appear lower than they really are.

They did the same with COVID deaths. Stopped counting them in the official COVID mortality figures to hold out that Salvadorans weren't dying at high levels. Luckily, the vast number of excess deaths were still tallied in the normal mortality database, so we get a clear picture of reality.

It's been fascinating to observe from the outside. I spent a lot of time looking at his last election and noted his party won 90% of the seats with 70% of the popular vote compared to the previous election where they held 66% of the vote and seats. Very successful gerrymandering it seems.

Is his popularity starting to show any cracks yet?

This is a great article by @motherjones.com Thanks for sharing it.

You do great work Mr Lindo 💪

Bukele plays by his own rulebook. He can do whatever he wants if he wishes. His administration has been more than capable of releasing actual gang leaders from prison in recent years.
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