El Salvador murder rate falls, though still among deadliest

SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) — Homicides in El Salvador have fallen for a third straight year, but the gang-plagued Central American nation remains among the world’s deadliest.
Police Commissioner Howard Cotto told journalists Wednesday that the murder rate was 50.3 per 100,000 inhabitants in 2018. That’s down from 60.8 the previous year and less than half the 103 recorded in 2015, a nadir for violence in the country.
Criminologist Ricardo Sosa called three straight years of