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Crime, including murders, is suddenly dropping throughout Latin America.

Now, why is this?

There are different claims on what's causing it. Some say it's criminals and gangs while migrating to the United States. Others say it's from, well, some of the tough on crime policies we now see being adopted in some Latin American countries, not all of them. And the big question is, well, what is it really? Some of this follows the model, notably, of El Salvador

cracking down on MS-13, something that has actually been effective in El Salvador. A lot of Western

media are criticizing it, saying, well, how could you be so mean to those poor gang members? Well,

let's start by looking at what's now taking place in Venezuela. This is France 24. They say this.

Argentina's most violent city, Rosario, best known as the hometown of soccer star Lionel Mese,

has in recent months seen a drastic and some say suspicious fall in murders. What is causing this?

Well, it says the city, which is Argentina's third largest, has had for a long time a murder rate standing at around five

times the national average in their country with up to 260 killings per year. Now, they say

everything seems to have changed since the end of

2023. What happened? While they say that President Javier Malay, the guy with the

chainsaw saying he's going to cut away all the fat from the government, he took office

and it said he vowed zero tolerance for crime. Now notes it the same time the province of Santa Fe, where

Rosario is located, it's a very violent town, right? It got a new governor that's Maximiliano

Polaro. And it's that Polaro, what did he do? Immediately, he imposed harsher conditions on prisoners, particularly gang bosses, because what

happens, sometimes his gang bosses get arrested, they go to prison, and they just run the gangs

at a prison.

It says that he started publishing photos of jail raids and subdued the prisoners.

His actions earned him around 30 death threats in his first month in office

and prompted a backlash from gangs who killed four civilians in March.

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