El Salvador gangs: Mass arrests bring calm but at what price? - BBC
WEBMay 18, 2023 · For decades, the MS13 and the 18th Street Gang dumped victims' bodies in ditches and streams, on roadsides and wasteland across the notoriously dangerous district of the capital, San Salvador....
Salvadoran gang crackdown - Wikipedia
WEBThe Salvadoran gang crackdown, referred to in El Salvador as the régimen de excepción (Spanish for state of exception) [3] and the guerra contra las pandillas (Spanish for war against gangs), [4] began in March 2022 in response to a crime spike between 25 and 27 March 2022, when 87 people were killed in El Salvador.
El Salvador Decimated Its Ruthless Gangs. But at What Cost?
WEBApr 9, 2023 · After the March killings, El Salvador’s ruling party-controlled legislature declared a state of emergency. The military flooded gang areas across the country, rounding up 13,000 people within...
Thousands of tattooed inmates pictured in El Salvador mega-prison - BBC
WEBFeb 25, 2023 · The first group of 2,000 suspected gang members in El Salvador have been moved to a huge new prison, the centrepiece of President Nayib Bukele's self-declared war on crime.
War on gangs forges new El Salvador. But the price is steep.
WEBMar 22, 2023 · SOYAPANGO, El Salvador (AP) — With semiautomatic weapons pressed to their chest, a pack of camouflage-clad police officers marches through rows of small brick homes winding up hills on the fringes of El Salvador’s capital.
Nayib Bukele war on gangs: El Salvador has arrested 2% of its …
WEBDec 15, 2022 · El Salvador is home to some of the world’s most notorious gangs, including Barrio 18 and MS-13. The latter emerged in Los Angeles in the 1980s among Salvadoran immigrants who had fled...
War on gangs forges new El Salvador. But the price is steep
WEBMar 22, 2023 · Salvadorans cherish small new freedoms: traversing the capital at night, ordering pizza delivery, doing aerobics in a park. For others, the transformation comes at a steep price. Large swaths of San Salvador remain militarized, and officers push into homes to strip-search families.
El Salvador extends anti-gang emergency decree for 24th time.
WEBMar 9, 2024 · But rights groups have expressed concerns about abuses inside El Salvador’s prisons, and say that innocent people are being caught up in sweeps targeting the notorious violent street gangs. Gangs once controlled swaths of territory through brutality and fear.
Explosion of Gang Violence Grips El Salvador, Setting Record
WEBMar 27, 2022 · El Salvador declared a state of emergency Sunday after gangs went on a killing spree on Saturday, randomly shooting street vendors, bus passengers and marketgoers. It was the single bloodiest...
El Salvador: Entire region 'under siege' to hem in gangs - BBC
WEBAug 2, 2023 · Thousands of soldiers in El Salvador have surrounded a rural region larger than New York City to flush out gang members who are allegedly hiding there. The military deployment in Cabañas was...