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A Deep Dive Into El Salvador´s Criminal Dynamics and Its Borders
In El Salvador, sophisticated freight networks specialize in moving illicit drugs and contraband across Central American borders.
Join us next Tuesday, March 23, for a discussion in which InSight Crime project coordinator Ángela Olaya Castro — as well as investigators Alicia Flórez and Victoria Dittmar — delve into El Salvador’s cross-border criminal dynamics. Moderated by InSight Crime Co-director Steven Dudley, the event is part of a series of country-by-country presentations titled “Border Crime: The Northern Triangle and the Tri-Border Area,” in which InSight Crime presents findings of investigative work carried out during the last two years in these border regions.
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El Salvador is home to sophisticated freight networks that specialize in moving illicit narcotics through Central America, in addition to notorious street gangs the MS13 and Barrio 18. Though mostly tied up in extortion, InSight Crime tracked how one faction of the MS13 branched out into the international cocaine trade.