First El Salvador Locked Up the Gangs. Now the People Reap the Reward. Enter the 'Aerocable'.
There’s an old rule you hear all the time — it’s called the 90/10 rule. Ten percent of the population ruins things for the other 90%. It’s called a rule for a reason: it’s true.
El Salvador spent years proving the point.
A relatively small percentage of the country was involved in gangs, murder, extortion, and making ordinary people afraid to walk down their own streets.
Then the government finally got serious about its most basic responsibility: protecting its citizens and getting rid of the criminals.
Today, nowhere near 10% of the population is behind bars. It’s closer to 2%. The other 8%? They got the message.
El Aerocable ya es una realidad.
— Nayib Bukele (@nayibbukele) July 26, 2026
Estamos construyendo un sistema de transporte público moderno que transformará la movilidad de cientos de miles de salvadoreños.
El sistema se construirá por fases.
La Fase 1 estará conformada por 5 líneas.
Paso a paso. pic.twitter.com/mwaTopIorg
And now, with the country dramatically safer, El Salvador is building a five-line cable-car system that looks like the kind of thing most Americans wish their own city could pull off.
Funny how many nice things become possible once the bad guys stop running the place.
