Economic Indicators for El Salvador including actual values, historical data, and latest data updates for the El Salvador economy. 02/10/2025
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 gangs, in San Salvador, El Salvador ...
EL SALVADOR: GANGS MAY BE SCAPEGOAT FOR SOARING MURDER RATEEdgardo Ayala
Over the past decades, El Salvador has consistently topped the list of countries with thehighest homicide ratesthat are not in open war. A bitter feud between the two transnational gangs Mara Salvatrucha, or MS-13, and Barrio 18 has made the small nation an epicen...
Seventeen years after the civil war in El Salvador came to an end, violence and insecurity continue to shape the daily lives of many Salvadorans. This book examines the phenomenon of youth gangs, as well as related police abuse, clandest... L Pedraza - International Human Rights Clinic, Hu...
Gangs and Modern-Day Slavery in El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala: A Non-Traditional Model of Human TraffickingTrafficking in persons, also known as human trafficking or modern-day slavery, is a criminal enterprise that affects virtually every country in the world. Altho...
The main priorities for the new president, Salvador Sanchez Ceren, will be to boost the flagging economy, consolidate the fiscal accounts, and address violence and organised crime, which remain high and could worsen now that a truce between the main gangs (maras) has unravelled. Mr Sanchez ...
communities all over the United States, whether in the barrios of Los Angeles or at a derelict shopping mall next to a posh neighborhood on Long Island…In fact, the Salvadoran gangs have roots almost as deep in the United States as they do in El Salvador itself.” True enough, but so...
“I don’t understand that about the constitution, but the man is doing a good job, he‘s finishing with the gangs, and yes I support him,” said Estela Sánchez, a produce vendor in the San Salvador suburb of Santa Tecla. Constitutional lawyers have said re-election violates at le...
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