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Article Excerpt
As President Antonio Saca enters his fourth year as president of El Salvador, policies to quell violence in the country appear to have failed. These policies include not only those he initiated but also those he inherited and maintained. Government denials notwithstanding, El Salvador is the third-most-violent country in the region after neighbors Honduras and Guatemala. There have been 10,000 murders since Saca's June 2004 inauguration, 55 for every 100,000 people.
In January 2006, Rodrigo Avila became chief of the Policia Nacional Civil (PNC). He came in talking tough and boasted he would cut that rate in half within two years. With six months to go on his pledge, statistically he has not even started. The daily murder rate in 2005 was 10.4. In April 2007, the rate was 10.4. Now, he hedges a bit, saying, "Halving the number of murders every year is impossible, but there will be months where murders do drop by half. There are already months where it has dropped by 10%."
But flagging the blips is not getting the job done, and neither, experts have said repeatedly, is the mano-dura policy...
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