Caribbean & Central America - November 2012 (ISSN 1741-4458)

If poverty, exclusion and illiteracy are the root causes of crime and insecurity as President Mauricio Funes argues then El Salvador should steadily became a safer place. Illiteracy has fallen by some eight percentage points since Funes came to power in 2009, according to the publication of the annual household survey in October, to 12.8%. Funes also insisted during the presentation of the 2013 budget in September that his government’s overriding priority was social programmes, something which is borne out by proposed spending.

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