In recent years, officials have expressed increasing concern about the influence of Central American street gangs, known as maras, in South America; but while street gangs are on the rise…
El Salvador has seen a spike in homicides this year, up to 13 per day compared to 11 per day in February 2011, which the government has blamed on a…
Five soldiers have been murdered so far this year in El Salvador, lending credence to the claims of federal police that local maras, or street gangs, are plotting against…
El Salvador's government has proposed implementing a curfew on young people and placing schools under heavy guard, following a record year for murders.
El Salvadors government says it is taking a radical stance on crime, using the military to police the country's most violent areas and now appointing military men to top security…
Authorities in El Salvador have transferred more than 1,000 inmates in an attempt to stabilize some of the country's violent, overcrowded prisons following the death of nine inmates earlier this…
El Salvadors police have claimed that the countrys maras, or street gangs, are planning an all-out attack on security forces, despite the fact that these groups have neither the organizational…
Reports that San Pedro Sula, Honduras, has taken the place of Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, as the most violent city in the hemisphere are a result of shifts in trafficking patterns…
El Salvador saw a huge number of disappearances in 2011, with capital San Salvador alone registering more than 2,000 missing people, in a sign of growing gang violence.
A top drug policy official in El Salvador said they have no official estimate for how much cocaine transits through the country. After registering a record murder rate in 2011,…
El Salvador is suffering a new wave of disappearances, mostly of young people and teenagers, who go missing without explanation in a phenomenon linked to the gang violence hitting…
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