In 1995, El Salvador had an intentional homicide rate of 139 per 100,000, the highest in the world and one of the highest rates recorded in modern history. Like all educated middle-class Americans, my core understanding of urban crime comes from The Wire, so for comparison, when the show took place, the homicide rate in…
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Opposition parties in El Salvador on Monday asked the country's election authority to void the results of congressional elections that took place in early February and re-do the vote after a hand count of ballots revealed several irregularities. On Sunday, Feb. 4, President Nayib Bukele handily won a second term despite a constitutional ban on immediate re-election, when Salvadorans cast their ballots for president and Congress. Despite Bukele claiming his New Ideas party had won 58 out of 60 seats, in the days that followed El Salvador's electoral body began a hand count of the vote after declaring a failure in the voting system following numerous reports of irregularities, glitches, and power and internet outages.
El Salvador s election
authority on Monday announced that President Nayib Bukele s
ruling New Ideas party would control a super majority in the
next legislature with 54 out of 60 seats, following a. -February 19, 2024 at 10:35 pm EST
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