Wall Street Journalさんのインスタグラム写真 - (Wall Street JournalInstagram)「El Salvador, long whipsawed by gang violence that made it one of the world’s most dangerous countries, turned things around by jailing huge swaths of its population. The country once known for having the world’s highest murder rate now has the world’s highest incarceration rate—about double that of the U.S.⁠ ⁠ Since March 2022, President Nayib Bukele’s government has implemented a campaign to arrest en masse suspected members of gangs that have long terrorized the impoverished Central American nation, blocking economic growth and stoking U.S.-bound migration. ⁠ ⁠ The strategy has helped lower homicides by 92% compared with 2015, giving Bukele the support of nine of every 10 Salvadorans, polls show. The number of illegal crossings at the U.S.-Mexico border by Salvadorans—once one of the largest groups to do so—has dropped by 44%.⁠ ⁠ In the past 16 months, the government also has put some 68,000 people in this Massachusetts-size country of 6.3 million behind bars. That’s more than 1% of the population, according to World Prison Brief, an online database on correctional systems. Rights groups said the campaign has swept up innocent people, especially among the country’s poor and indigenous communities, who are held for long periods in harsh conditions without trial. ⁠ ⁠ Responding to allegations of prisoner mistreatment, Bukele during a cabinet meeting in October said, “Yes, they’ll have human rights. But the human rights of honest people are more important.”⁠ ⁠ The anti-gang campaign is widely popular in El Salvador, whether in hardscrabble neighborhoods, wealthy enclaves or rural regions. Now, other countries are watching El Salvador’s policies as they grapple with their own high murder rates.⁠ ⁠ Read more at the link in our bio.⁠ ⁠ 📷: @photojuancarlos for @wsjphotos」7月17日 4時00分