SAN SALVADOR, Feb 14 (NNN-PRENSA LATINA) — El Salvador maintains a decreasing trend regarding the rate of violence that involves only 15 deaths, including four femicides, so far in 2023, authorities said.
Statistics from January to date show a rate of 0.61 homicides per day, less than 1.5 per day during 2022 and according to the National Civil Police (PNC), the figure is 26 murders, four of which were femicides and two suicides.
PNC figures indicate that there is a daily average of 1.3 violent incidents, the reduction of which is influenced by the effectiveness of the fight against gangs.
According to a police report, the official figures were 11 dead people, including homicides against gang members and people who allegedly committed suicide, which raised the death toll to 15 lives with firearms.
Among the victims of possible homicides were 11 civilians and two alleged gang members killed on Saturday, Feb 11, in a confrontation with police in El Edén, Sonsonate, authorities reported.
SANTO DOMINGO: The Dominican Republic is mourning the deaths of six women who have been assassinated in the first two months of the year.
According to Listin Diario, last year, 99 deaths were reported as women’s homicides and femicides, so this year will not bring any good news to society to get rid of this scourge.
Among the cases reported so far is that of a 10-year-old preadolescent girl and her mother, both of Haitian nationality, who was murdered on Jan 13.
In the assassinations, firearms and knives have been used, as well as beatings. So far authorities have captured the perpetrators of the crimes but incredibly in one of the cases the victim died without wanting to reveal the name of her victimizer.
Violence against women is so deeply rooted in this nation that it will be difficult to reduce it at least if the causes are not attacked from the root, including the home and upbringing within families.
Hopefully in the coming months the trend of these terrible deaths will decrease and people will become aware of the value of women in our societies. — NNN-PRENSA LATINA
