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More than 5,000 soldiers and 500 police encircled a small town in northern El Salvador after President Nayib Bukele said Wednesday gang members had killed a member of the national police there.
El Salvador sent about 8,000 soldiers and police officers to comb the rural province of Cabañas for street gang members Tuesday, in one of the most massive raids since President Nayib Bukele ...
On January 2, 1991, a U.S. Army helicopter carrying three American soldiers was shot down by the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN) nearby the village of Lolotique, San Miguel Department, El Salvador. The two surviving soldiers were summarily executed by FMLN forces in one of the most infamous incidents during El Salvador's civil ...
The Salvadoran gang crackdown, known in El Salvador as the State of Exception (Spanish: régimen de excepción) or the War Against the Gangs (guerra contra las pandillas), began on 27 March 2022 in response to a series of homicides committed by criminal gangs between 25 and 27 March 2022 which killed 87 people.
Beginning in the 1990s, crime committed by street gangs became a major problem in El Salvador after many Salvadoran refugees from the country's civil war began to be deported from the United States. Many of these deported Salvadorans were members of street gangs, most notably Mara Salvatrucha ( MS-13 ) and the 18th Street gang (Barrio 18).
In the last decade or so, El Salvador has gone from among the most violent countries in the world to among Latin America’s safest. The country’s official homicide rate dropped from 106 per ...
The Zona Rosa attack was a guerrilla attack that took place in the Zona Rosa restaurant area of San Salvador, El Salvador at approximately 21:30 on June 19, 1985, during the Salvadoran Civil War. The attack was conducted by gunmen dressed as Salvadoran soldiers, and in total twelve people were killed: four United States Marines , two United ...
More than six months after the Salvadorean government started a security operation to combat gangs, nearly 55,000 have been arrested, overcrowding an already stressed criminal justice system. (Oct.