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A ridiculous statement. It is based on data provided by a police force controlled by a dictatorship who is promoting indiscriminate mass imprisonment.

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Bukele's 90+% approval rating (as measured by independent pollsters not controlled by gov't, AFAIK nobody claims those numbers to be wrong) supports the claim. If ordinary Salvadorans weren't seeing a massive improvement in their daily lives, he wouldn't be so popular. Also murder is easy to track, it's hard to hide a death, community and local news will notice. (El Salvador has independent media critical of the gov't, for example https://elfaro.net/ )

Chavez had similar approval ratings at some point. He even won fair elections actually. I don't believe for a second that thee numbers are real. It might hard to hide a death, but not recognising it as a murder is actually pretty easy.

Chavez approval ratings could be tied to oil prices and declining poverty rates. As long as oil prices were high approval ratings followed. It worked until the collapse of oil prices.

If the numbers are so obviously fake, then why do even strident critics of the government not allege it?

> (El Salvador has independent media critical of the gov't, for example https://elfaro.net/ )

We did for a long time, but availability of independent media is declining. Some months ago El Faro moved its headquarters to Costa Rica

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