The record with fewer murders was held by February of this year with 26 days, which is attributed to the effectiveness of the Territorial Control Plan and the exception regime extended 40 times since its approval on March 27, 2022.

These figures allow the country to approach the thousand days without lethalities since President Nayib Bukele came to government in 2019.

We ended on Wednesday, July 30, with Zero homicides in the country, the National Civil Police announced on its official X account.

Thanks to its security policy, El Salvador put behind bars nearly 87,000 gang members and alleged collaborators, although sectors of civil society denounce that nearly 20 percent are innocent.

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