Salvadoran gang crackdown - Wikipedia
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.
El Salvador gangs: Mass arrests bring calm but at what price? - BBC
2023年5月18日 · For decades, the MS13 and the 18th Street Gang dumped victims' bodies in ditches and streams, on roadsides and wasteland across the notoriously dangerous district of the capital, San Salvador....
Crime in El Salvador - Wikipedia
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.
Salvadoran court sentences 3 youths to prison after they appeared …
3 天之前 · It comes amid a harsh gang crackdown by El Salvador President Nayib Bukele. Following a wave of gang violence in 2022, Bukele declared a temporary state of emergency in the Central American country and waved key constitutional rights. The government has arrested 84,000 people – more than 1% of the country’s population – the vast majority ...
Thousands of tattooed inmates pictured in El Salvador mega-prison - BBC
2023年2月25日 · The first group of 2,000 suspected gang members in El Salvador have been moved to a huge new prison, the centrepiece of President Nayib Bukele's self-declared war on crime.
El Salvador gangs: Mass arrests bring calm but at what price?
2023年5月18日 · For decades, the MS13 and the 18th Street Gang dumped victims' bodies in ditches and streams, on roadsides and wasteland across the notoriously dangerous district of the capital, San...
War on gangs forges new El Salvador. But the price is steep.
2023年3月22日 · SOYAPANGO, El Salvador (AP) — With semiautomatic weapons pressed to their chest, a pack of camouflage-clad police officers marches through rows of small brick homes winding up hills on the fringes of El Salvador’s capital.
How Bukele’s Government Overpowered Gangs in El Salvador
2023年12月6日 · El Salvador’s gangs are in disarray. For decades, the Mara Salvatrucha (MS13) and two factions of the 18th Street (Barrio 18) dominated the small Central American nation’s criminal landscape. The gangs embedded themselves in poor communities, terrorizing urban dwellers with extortion and murders.
How El Salvador’s Crackdown Succeeded Where Others Failed
2023年12月6日 · The clearest indicator of decreased gang presence in El Salvador is the absence of the MS13 and Barrio 18 in neighborhoods once dominated by the gangs. For decades prior to the state of emergency, the gangs exerted significant territorial control in urban hubs throughout El Salvador.
El Salvador: The people caught up in the gang crackdown - BBC
2022年12月4日 · He also delivered the latest escalation in his ruthless crackdown on the country's street gangs which has seen a staggering 57,000 people arrested on suspicion of gang affiliation since March.