The new sentencing measure comes as President Nayib Bukele oversees a four-year-long state of emergency against crime. El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele has led a hardline crackdown on crime since 2022 [File: Jose Cabezas/Reuters] El Salvador has published a new law that will allow authorities to penalise minors as young as 12 with life imprisonment for severe crimes, including homicide, terrorism or rape. On Tuesday, the Salvadoran government released the law, which is sl