Murders have skyrocketed in El Salvador. Hundreds of people are being killed each month. The government is cracking down on two powerful gangs, but is it enough to stop the violence? El Salvador has one of the highest murder rates in the world and the situation is only getting worse. Accor...
What happens when your past life of crime is literally written across your face? For gang members in El Salvador, their characteristic excess of tattoos often betrays their affiliation: 18th Street or Mara Salvatrucha-13 (MS-13).Venice Lido...
After America toughened immigration laws in 1997, itdeportedthousands of these criminals to El Salvador, where mob activity rose. Some 65,000 members of these two gangs now live in the country, and its murder rate is among the world’s highest. deport: 驱逐 A recent paper by Nikita Melnikov...
FILE PHOTO: Members of the security forces kick off Christmas Eve with a military operation against drug traffickers where they detained suspected criminals in El Salvador's capital, according to government information as part of the country's controversial attempt to fight criminal ...
MS-13 gang members languish in the Quezaltepeque police station in El Salvador Strategy Author: El Salvador is a small country with big problems. Just over a quarter of a century ago, it was engulfed in an intrastate war that mutilated both the nation’s economy and its infrastructure, all...
Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele, famous for his heavy-handed crackdown on street gangs, has threatened to use similar tactics against price gougers.
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U.T. is a gay man from El Salvador who fled his country for the U.S. after being threatened by an MS-13 gang member. He fears he will be attacked or killed for his sexual orientation if he tries to live openly as a gay man in his home country. He traveled through Guatemala on ...
In El Salvador, the alarming spike in violence is more difficult to explain. Dickey argues that “despite new waves of arrests, and the gangs’ hatred of each other, MS-13 and Barrio 18 are clearly out to show how powerless the central government really is.” Sure, but why? The gangs ...