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The Salvadoran Civil War was a military conflict that pitted the guerrilla forces of the left-wing Marxist-oriented Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN) against the armed and security forces loyal to the military-led conservative government of El Salvador, between 1979 and 1992.
El Salvador has offered to take in criminals deported from the US, including those with US citizenship, and house them in its mega-jail. The deal was announced after US Secretary of State Marco ...
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.
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.
Data from the World Prison Brief (WPB) says El Salvador has per capita the highest prison population rate of anywhere in the world, with 1,659 inmates per 100,000 residents.
Regardless of whether the U.S. and El Salvador reach an agreement, the offer is bringing renewed attention to the Central American country’s flagship prison, the 40,000-inmate capacity Centro de ...
3 February – El Salvador and the United States reach an agreement allowing for the incarceration of migrants and imprisoned US citizens in Salvadoran prisons. [ 1 ] 4 February – A Salvadoran military contingent arrives in Haiti to assist in the UN-backed security mission there.
El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele has offered for illegal immigrants – of any nationality – facing deportation in the U.S. to be booked in his country's prison system in exchange for a fee ...