EL SALVADOR: FOCUS ON GANGS DISTRACTS FROM ORGANIZED CRIMERaul Gutierrez
to Halt Violence]]>Joshua PartlowSarah Esther Maslin
Although it is increasingly recognised that violence, crime, and associated fear are challenging democratic governance in Latin America, less attention has been paid to the ways in which state responses to crime contribute to the problem. By analysing El Salvador as a case study, this article addr...
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...
and some of her fellow police officers in El Salvador, Magdalena fled to the U.S. in 2013 and was ultimately granted legal refuge. Years later, members of the same gang threatened her 13-year-old daughter, who journeyed north in search of the safe harbor her mother found on U.S. soil...
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. ...
In 2003, the Government of El Salvador launched Plan Mano Dura to curb urban violence and homicides, most of which had been attributed to street gangs. Domestic nonゞovernmental organisations (NGOs) criticised the measure for its repressive nature and the neglect of the wider policies for preve...
The carnage being wrought in El Salvador this year is slowly attracting the attention of major English-language media in the United States. In the past week alone, Time ran a photo-feature on the country’s “War Without Sense,” ThinkProgress published
1998. "The Children of War Street Gangs in El Salvador." NACLA Report on the Americas, 32(1): 21-29De Cesare, Donna, 1998, "The Children of War. Street Gangs in El Salvador", NACLA Report on the Americas, vol. 32, num. 1, pp. 21-29....
Mapping Transnational Crime in El Salvador: New Trends and Lessons from Colombia Since El Salvador's civil war formally ended in 1992 the small Central American nation has undergone profound social changes and significant reforms. However, few changes have been as important or as devastating as the...