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The number of homicides in El Salvador dropped nearly 70% during 2023, the Central American country's security authorities said on Wednesday, crediting a prolonged state of emergency declared...
El Salvador declared a state of emergency Sunday after gangs went on a killing spree on Saturday, randomly shooting street vendors, bus passengers and marketgoers.
The catalyst for the new reality emerging in El Salvador was a weekend rampage by criminals in March of last year that left more than 80 dead.
Between March 25 and 27, at least eighty-seven people were murdered in a wave of violence that Salvadoran authorities blamed on Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13) and Barrio 18, two of the country’s most...
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....
Salvadoran photographer Carlos Barrera takes a look at the nearly two years of human rights violations allegedly committed by the government of El Salvador during the country's state of...
El Salvador’s Leader Has Eroded Rights to Tackle Violence. Is It Working? The president declared a state of emergency eight months ago to take on gang violence, and arrests soared.
Police said there had been 62 murders on Saturday, making it the most violent 24-hour period since the end of the civil war in 1992. New laws restrict the right to gather, allow arrests...
SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador — The number of homicides in El Salvador dropped nearly 70% during 2023, the Central American country’s security authorities said on Wednesday, crediting a prolonged...
SAN SALVADOR, Jan 3 (Reuters) - Murders in El Salvador tumbled 56.8% in 2022 amid a widespread crackdown on gang violence, the government said on Tuesday, extending a sharp drop in killings in...