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Today femicide and abuse are driving suicide rates up among Salvadoran women, and forcing many to flee north to seek asylum in the U.S. Violence Against Women in El Salvador Is Driving Them to ...
In 2012, El Salvador saw a 41% drop in crime compared to 2011 figures due to what the Salvadoran government called a gang truce. [13] In early 2012, there were an average of 16 killings per day, but in late March that number dropped to fewer than five per day, and on April 14, 2012, for the first time in over three years, there were no killings ...
The number of homicides in El Salvador dropped nearly 70% during 2023, the Central American country's security authorities said on Wednesday, crediting a prolonged state of emergency declared by ...
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.
According to the Women's Coordination Unit in El Salvador, women may also be killed for rejecting the advances of gang members. [11] The problem of gang-related femicide is exacerbated by the culture of fear and violent retaliation surrounding organized crime and criminal governance in Latin America. [11]
The three are among at least 17 Salvadoran women activists consider unjustly convicted and imprisoned following obstetric emergencies.
Once they came to his home, he subdued, raped, and murdered them. It is known that his last two victims, a 57-year-old woman and her 26-year-old daughter, were beaten to death with a pipe. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] When he was arrested on 7 May 2021, he confessed to the murders to the police.
The murder of the women, along with attempts by the Salvadoran military and some American officials to cover it up, generated a grass-roots opposition in the U.S., as well as ignited intense debate over the Administration's policy in El Salvador. In 1984, the defendants were found guilty and sentenced to 30 years in prison.