The problems in El Salvador are vast and complex, too difficult for a visiting governor to solve. But as President Trump seeks to cancel U.S. aid to El Salvador and wall off the border with Mexico, Newsom hopes to help stimulate jobs and the economy there
“People, many people, die, and for us, when you’re young, it is very sad to see that life is not respected,” said David Escobar Fuentes, a 26-year-old Salvadoran who said he unsuccessfully fled to the U.S. last year after gangs extorted his family’s farming business. “It is sad to see a little kid, just a few months old, that has been shot in the neck. There is no justice in the country.”
“Helping stabilize El Salvador directly helps California by mitigating the border challenges, by mitigating migration, by tempering the rhetoric with the Trump administration,” Newsom said. “It’s about finding a different angle in the debate.” Newsom said Visit California, a nonprofit operated and funded by the tourism industry to promote travel to the state, has committed to sharing marketing practices and assisting El Salvador to brand itself as a travel destination.
But in conversations with human rights activists, embassy officials, priests, former gang members, prison directors, anthropologists, political leaders and deportees, Newsom learned that crime rates have dropped steadily in recent years.The number of homicides in El Salvador declined by 50% over the last three years, but the country’s 51 murders per 100,000 people in 2018 still ranked second in the world to Venezuela.
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