Since the crackdown began, the gangs have shown minimal signs of armed retaliation. In a matter of months, Bukele’s crackdown had swept up tens of thousands of suspected gang members …
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Smoking crack is inhaling fear and getting addicted to the panic. That’s what White, Ángel, and David say. The three men staying in a group home in Comayagüela, the impoverished …
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Despite her release, Dalila Johana Flores remains a symbol of the arbitrary acts being committed under El Salvador’s state of emergency.
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Mexican authorities have captured a top Salvadoran gang leafder who had been secretly released from an El Salvador prison and had fled the country. His capture, and expulsion to the …
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The story of Dalila Johana Flores Flores is one of thousands of arbitrary detentions that have taken place in El Salvador. Her experience demonstrates that, under the state of emergency, …
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More than a dozen confidential reports from El Salvador’s National Civil Police obtained by InSight Crime reveal that, although “weakened” after a year and a half under a state of …
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Military crackdowns and mass trials show that there’s no end in sight in El Salvador’s anti-gang state of exception.
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The Honduran government’s anti-gang crackdown risks oversimplifying the causes behind the country’s violence.
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The acquittal of “El Barney” raises questions about El Salvador’s approach to targeting gang leaders amid the state of exception.
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Honduras Makes Few Advances Against Crime During 6-Month State of Exception
by Efren Bryneby Efren BryneAfter six months, the state of exception in Honduras has failed to significantly reduce gang violence and extortion.