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Weekly Report - 18 August 2016 (WR-16-32)
EL SALVADOR: Twin boon for Sánchez Cerén
The number of homicides in El Salvador has fallen year-on-year for the first time since 2014, according to the director of the national police force (PNC), Howard Cotto. In the year to 9 August, there were 3,542 murders, seven fewer than in the same period in 2015. Vice-President Oscar Ortiz attributed the decline in homicides to the government’s ‘El Salvador Seguro’ security initiative and the ‘extraordinary measures’ decreed by President Salvador Sánchez Cerén last March to combat the country’s mara gangs. The government also received a fillip two days later when the legislative assembly approved a bond emission of US$152m to fund its security initiatives.
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