Funes goes off the deep end

According to the National Civilian Police, 402 Salvadorans were murdered in February. The month's total is much greater than each of the last three months of February and by a large margin. There were 330 homicides in 2009, 326 in 2010, and 311 in 2011. Sorry but you can't chalk up the increase to leap year. Add the 402 to the 419 from January and it doesn't look like El Salvador in going to make any progress this year. An average of 400 per month would bring the country to 4800 - 500 more than last year.

In an interview with Univision's Jorge Ramos, President Mauricio Funes might have gone off the deep end.

"Most murders, I would say that 90 percent or more is not about the murders of a defenseless civilian population. They are essentially the settling of scores, quarrels, summary executions, carried out by criminals of each other for control of territory and control of drug dealing. That is what has happened in recent days, there have been more killings of gang members or gang associates or employees of organized crime structures."

Come on man. 90% of the country's murders are carried out by gangs and now 90% of the murder victims are gang members or are tied to organized crime?.

Here's the entire interview.