Renan Santos: And he produced the result.
Renan Santos: He increased sentences, he implemented something that the Constitution of El Salvador allows, which is a state of exception, that permitted the police and the armed forces to act emphatically.
He treated the criminal factions as anomalous organisms, as terrorists — that is, he had a special law, created the famous Secote, which cost something like R$500 million by conversion, which is a super-prison there in El Salvador, and then he destroyed them.
Renan Santos: And today El Salvador is a very, very safe place.
Renan Santos: Other nations, for example in East Asia, also have very harsh laws against organized crime and, despite having been poor for a long time, show quality of life and homicide and robbery figures much lower than Brazil's.