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  2. Crime in El Salvador - Wikipedia

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    The homicide rate in El Salvador has plummeted drastically since the 2022 Salvadoran gang crackdown which has led the country to have the highest incarceration rate in the world at 1086 people per 100 000 with an estimated 1.6% of the country's total population said to be currently incarcerated.

  3. Salvadoran gang crackdown - Wikipedia

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    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.

  4. List of countries by intentional homicide rate - Wikipedia

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    The list of countries by homicide rate is derived from United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) data, and is expressed in number of deaths per 100,000 population per year. For example, a homicide rate of 30 out of 100,000 is presented in the table as "30", and corresponds to 0.03% of the population dying by homicide.

  5. El Salvador backs mass trials for thousands held in crime ...

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    SAN SALVADOR (Reuters) -El Salvador's Congress on Wednesday approved group trials for the tens of thousands of people arrested during President Nayib Bukele's crackdown on criminal gangs, which ...

  6. Blockade of Soyapango - Wikipedia

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    On 27 March 2022, the Salvadoran government declared a state of emergency following a spike in murders which resulted in 87 deaths between 25 and 27 March. [3] From March 2022 to November 2022, the government arrested a total of 58,096 people with alleged affiliations to the country's two largest criminal gangs: Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13) and 18th Street gang. [4]

  7. Blockade of San Marcos - Wikipedia

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    On March 27, 2022, the government of El Salvador, chaired by Nayib Bukele since June 1, 2019, declared a state of national emergency after recording a significant increase in homicides. Between March 25 and 27, 87 murders were reported, which represented the highest number of violent deaths in a weekend since the Salvadoran civil war ended in 1992.

  8. Bukele defends Salvador on migration, crime, raps neighbors - AOL

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    El Salvador's new president said his country is trying to reduce irregular migration and fight crime and drug trafficking, and deserves to be treated differently than nearby countries. In remarks ...

  9. 2022 in El Salvador - Wikipedia

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    27 March – El Salvador declares a state of emergency after 62 people were murdered in the country yesterday, making it the most violent 24-hour period since the end of the civil war in 1992. [ 1 ] 16 April – President of El Salvador Nayib Bukele announces that 12,169 gang members have been arrested since the state of emergency began on ...