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The gang crackdown is officially known in El Salvador as the "State of Exception" (Spanish: régimen de excepción). [13] Salvadoran president Nayib Bukele and his government have described the crackdown itself as a "war" (guerra) [14] and also refer to it as the "War Against the Gangs" (guerra contra las pandillas).
Location of El Salvador. El Salvador is the smallest and the most densely populated country in Central America.El Salvador's capital and largest city is San Salvador.As of 2015, the country had a population of approximately 6.83 million, consisting largely of Mestizos of European and Indigenous American descent.
Unicomer Group Headquarters in San Salvador, El Salvador. The Unicomer Group was founded in 2000. [2]In 2014, Unicomer Group obtained international credit ratings from Fitch Ratings and from Standard and Poors for its consolidated holding company, which at that time was named Regal Forest Holding Co. Ltd.
A few days following the attack, leaflets were posted in El Salvador demanding members of MS-13 to “leave within five days or face certain death.” [8] In March 2016, Sombra Negra members rounded up four MS-13 gang members and put them in the back of a pickup truck in the town of San Antonio Silva.
Juan Carlos Calleja Hakker was born on 11 February 1976 in San Salvador, El Salvador. [1] His parents are Francisco Calleja, a businessman, and Maureen Hakker. [2] Calleja is a third-generation immigrant from Spain. [3] During the Salvadoran Civil War (1979–1992), Calleja and his family moved to the United States.
MS-13 is more than twice the size of Barrio 18, the second-most prominent gang in El Salvador. Together, the two account for almost all of the nation's gang violence. [9]: 6 Other notable gangs in El Salvador include Mao Mao, Miranda Loca, and La Maquina. [10] MS-13 has been a central focus of the Salvadoran government's current crackdown.
Death squad victims in San Salvador, (c. 1981)Death squads in El Salvador (Spanish: escuadrones de la muerte) were far-right paramilitary groups acting in opposition to Marxist–Leninist guerrilla forces, most notably of the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN), and their allies among the civilian population before, during, and after the Salvadoran Civil War.
Supermercados Super Selectos is a Salvadoran supermarket chain that is owned by Grupo Calleja and founded by Daniel Calleja (whose grandson, Carlos, is the current vice-president of Grupo Calleja). The company includes Supermercados De Todo and Selectos Market .