US Rates El Salvador As Safer To Visit Than Europe

Bloomberg News reports:

President Donald Trump’s administration on Tuesday elevated El Salvador’s travel safety designation to the best possible, putting it above countries in Western Europe, before President Nayib Bukele’s visit to the White House next week.

“Exercise normal precautions in El Salvador,” the State Department said in its updated travel advisory. “Gang activity has decreased over the last three years. This has caused a drop in violent crimes and murders.”

In response to the new advisory, El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele said on X his country “just got the U.S. State Department’s travel gold star: Level 1: safest it gets.”

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The US elevates El Salvador’s travel safety designation to the best possible, putting it above countries including France and Italy https://t.co/3d6R0Kgsi5

— Bloomberg (@business) April 9, 2025

El Salvador just got the U.S. State Department’s travel gold star:

Level 1: safest it gets.
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— Nayib Bukele (@nayibbukele) April 8, 2025

President Bukele is a thug who openly mocked the Constitution of the United States of America.

The American government is not to be trusted. You are in bed with thieves who buy human beings like a modern day slave market.

Who monitors to make sure that the prisoners are still… https://t.co/MDufkekzgb

— Steve Arnold (@SA_Gunnison) April 8, 2025