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v. t. e. The Salvadoran gang crackdown, referred to in El Salvador as the régimen de excepción (Spanish for state of exception) [3] and the guerra contra las pandillas (Spanish for war against gangs), [4] began in March 2022 in response to a crime spike between 25 and 27 March 2022, when 87 people were killed in El Salvador.
Terrorism Confinement Center. The Terrorism Confinement Center (Spanish: Centro de Confinamiento del Terrorismo, abbreviated and commonly referred to as CECOT) is a maximum security prison located in Tecoluca, El Salvador. The prison was built in late 2022 amidst a large-scale gang crackdown in El Salvador and was opened by the Salvadoran ...
The blockade of Nueva Concepción ( Spanish: Cerco de Nueva Concepción) was an operation by the military and police of El Salvador against Mara Salvatrucha members operating in the town of Nueva Concepción. It began on 17 May 2023, one day after a police officer was ambushed and murdered by alleged gang members; in response to the killing ...
Bukele launched a full-scale war against the country’s powerful street gangs. ... Luis was arrested that day and in less than 24 hours taken to El Salvador’s largest prison, La Esperanza, also ...
El Salvador's evangelical churches rehabilitated ex-gang members. The country's crackdown on L.A.-born gangs like MS-13 emptied programs and filled prisons.
The human rights organization Cristosal said Wednesday that at least 261 people have died in prisons in El Salvador during President Nayib Bukele's 2 1/2-year-old crackdown on street gangs. Under ...
Crime in El Salvador has been historically extremely high due to the presence of various gangs. As of 2011, there were an estimated 25 000 gang members at large in El Salvador; with another 43 500 in prison. [1] The best-known gangs, called maras in colloquial Salvadoran Spanish, are Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13) and their rivals 18th Street; maras ...
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 ...