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The gang crackdown is officially known in El Salvador as the "State of Exception" (Spanish: régimen de excepción). [14] Salvadoran president Nayib Bukele and his government have described the crackdown itself as a "war" (guerra) [15] and also refer to it as the "War Against the Gangs" (guerra contra las pandillas).
Gang violence has historically been a very severe issue in El Salvador. The roots of gang violence arises from issues like social and economic inequality, and changes made during the Salvadoran Civil War. In the 1980s, the MS-13 and the Barrio 18 gangs were formed in Los Angeles.
Experts trace the gang crisis in El Salvador to the United States' 1990s-era deportation of Salvadorans suspected of belonging to Los Angeles-formed gangs such as Mara Salvatrucha, or MS-13.
On 27 March 2022, the government of El Salvador, which has long suffered from high rates of gang violence, declared a state of exception following a spike in murders which resulted in 87 deaths in two days. The ensuing crackdown has seen more than 72,000 arrests, been credited with severely damaging El Salvador's criminal gangs, and generated ...
El Salvador's notorious Terrorism Confinement Center has been hailed as the nation's solution to rampant gang violence, but human rights groups have slammed its alleged inhumane treatment of its ...
Pedro had fled El Salvador years earlier when a gang tried to kill him. In Mexico he received a humanitarian visa and, when his daughter was born there, permanent residency.
From March 2012 to May 2014, the Salvadoran government, the Catholic Church, and the country's two largest criminal gangs — Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13) and the 18th Street gang (Barrio 18) — came to a truce, known in El Salvador simply as the Gang Truce (Spanish: tregua entre pandillas), [1] to lower the country's rate of homicides and extortions in exchange for improved prison conditions and ...
The government of El Salvador said Monday it has arrested more than 1,000 gang suspects after a wave of killings over the weekend. President Nayib Bukele ordered food for gang members held in ...