The challenge of most Latin American governments is to confront the factors that generate violence in their countries. A challenge that is added to inflation, extreme and dimensional poverty, migratory flows and climate change.
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In the specific case of reducing violence, there are several formulas to confront this phenomenon, but During 2023, the models proposed and developed by the presidents of El Salvador, Nayib Bukele, and Colombia, Gustavo Petro, were under discussion.
Bukele has gone to states of exception in the last 19 months to confront the violence of criminal groups. Some 73,000 people have been detained in that country, of which 7,000 were released for lack of evidence against them.
(Also: ‘We continue to have very high numbers of recruited children’: Tanya Chapuisat of Unicef)The homicide rate in that country went from 107 deaths per 100,000 inhabitants in 2015 to 7.8 per 100,000 last year.
Gustavo Petro and Nayib Bukele.
Presidency of Colombia and AFP
Petro is betting on peace policy, a strategy of dialogue and negotiation with armed groups and organized crime to reduce violence. The dissidents of the FARC, the ELN and the Urabeños are some of the organizations with which contacts are being made.
While this strategy gives results, some programs such as Pazos in Palmira (Valle) have been concerned with offering employment and education plans for vulnerable populations of young people, in order to prevent them from falling into networks that generate violence.
(In context: Strategies to reduce violence: the case of El Salvador)
Experts invited by El Tiempo and the newspaper La Prensa Gráfica of El Salvador analyzed the two models of violence reduction during the forum ‘America speaks, united to inform ourselves better’, which took place on November 8 in San Salvador.
Analysts expressed their points of view for and against the two initiatives, without reaching a conclusive point. Now, to go much deeper into this topic, we would like to know your opinion on how to confront violence, by answering this short questionnaire that we make available at this link. https://survey.zohopublic.com/zs/ogzM01
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