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El Salvador’S Crackdown On Gangs, Explained

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El Salvador’s President, Nayib Bukele, has reduced the rate of crime across the country but democracy has seemingly fallen too. From Murder Capital to Model State? El Salvador has a long history of gang violence primarily attributed to MS-13 and Barrio 18.

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For decades, life choices in El Salvador were either leave or die. People are returning after a crackdown on crime, but it’s come at a cost.

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A recent report from a Salvadoran human rights group reveals that Bukele’s crackdown on gangs has reshaped the country’s prison system, with officials now exploiting detainees‘ families for profit El Salvador has agreed to house violent US criminals and receive deportees of any nationality, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced Monday, in an unprecedented – and legally problematic

Before the administration of El Salvador President Nayib Bukele, no government had succeeded in breaking up the country’s vaunted and dangerous street gangs. Dating back to the early 2000s, security forces arrested their members in droves. Politicians sent waves of police officers and soldiers to the streets to dislodge the gangs from poor urban communities where Could El Salvador’s gang crackdown spread across Latin America? A harsh crackdown on gangs has brought Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele popularity, but experts say the cost is steep. To find out more about El Salvador’s crackdown on gangs you can watch Will Grant’s report on the BBC’s Our World programme.

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The new law allows mass trials of alleged gang members in groups of up to 900 and raises the maximum prison sentence for gang leaders from 45 to 60 years. SEE ALSO: Is Nayib Bukele’s ‘Iron Fist’ in El Salvador Working? These are the latest anti-gang measures amid an unprecedented mano dura, or iron fist, security crackdown. A recent report from a Salvadoran human rights group reveals that Bukele’s crackdown on gangs has reshaped the country’s prison system, with officials now exploiting detainees‘ families for profit through extortion.

AP reporter Megan Janetsky, video journalist Fernanda Pesce and freelance photographer Salvador Meléndez overcame access problems and people’s fear to carefully report about the El Salvador government’s crackdown on gangs, giving a deep dive portrait of the Central American country. Authorities in El Salvador have arrested a prominent human rights defender amid growing concerns over the government’s repressive anti-crime tactics, suggesting policies once used to attack organized crime are being repurposed to target political opponents.

El Salvador’s Crackdown on Gangs, Explained

Recently, Nayib Bukele has won his second term as the El Salvadorian president. This victory (If the election can be considered reliable. Some question it) has largely been attributed to his radical crackdown on gang activity in the country. These gangs beforehand had de-facto controlled the country and preyed on ordinary people everyday. Nayib Bukele seems to have (in image, at As El Salvador’s Gang Crackdown Continues, Citizens Wonder What’s Next? President Bukele’s tough policies have crippled the country’s

The Human Cost of El Salvador’s Massive Gang Crackdown El Salvador jailed more than 66,000 people in a crackdown on gangs last year, giving it the world’s highest incarceration rate. But El Salvador’s crackdown on gang violence succeeded in large part because the country’s police had spent years carefully amassing legal evidence. The 2022–2023 Salvadoran gang crackdown, also known as “the Régimen de Excepción” or the “Guerra Contra las Pandillas” (Spanish for “War

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The number of people arrested in El Salvador in the context of the State of Exception security plan—implemented by the Nayib Bukele government to end gangs—amounts to almost 89,000. The Minister of Public Security and Justice, Gustavo Villatoro, confirmed that police authorities have reported about 89,000 arrests of suspected gang members since the Relatives of those detained during the government’s crackdown on gangs protest at the ombudsman’s office in San Salvador behind a poster that reads: “They were taken alive. We want them back alive”, on 9 November 2023. A mega-prison where visitation and education are not allowed became Trump’s latest tool in his crackdown on immigration, when hundreds

A report by Amnesty International says El Salvador is experiencing one of the worst human rights crises since the country’s 1980-1992 civil war, because of President Nayib Bukele’s harsh anti-gang crackdown. CMV: El Salvador’s crackdown of violent gang members shows that in extreme situations, public health and criminal justice takes precedence over due process. 1 Executive Summary In March 2022, the government of El Salvador launched one of the most relentless security crackdowns in its history in its latest attempt to debilitate the country’s three main gangs — the Mara Salvatrucha (MS13), the Barrio 18 Revolucionarios (18R), and the Barrio Sureños (18S). Past crackdowns spanning multiple decades had failed to quell the gangs,

*This article is part of a six-part investigation, “El Salvador’s (Perpetual) State of Emergency: How Bukele’s Government Overpowered Gangs.” InSight Crime spent nine months analyzing how a ruthless state crackdown has debilitated the country’s notorious street gangs, the MS13 and two factions of Barrio 18. Download the full report or read the other chapters in the Sharing two pieces on human rights and Latin America that I wrote last month. The first examines the long-term implications of El Salvador’s crackdown on gangs: https://lnkd.in/g2gzgfzA. And in my latest, I examine how US sanctions on Venezuela and Cuba have exacerbated the worsening economic and political conditions behind the current migrant surge: https://lnkd.in/g8F5MyUC More than 2,000 soldiers and 500 police officers surrounded a dense neighborhood on the outskirts of El Salvador’s capital in an effort to quash the remnants of gangs the president said were trying to set up shop in the area.

El Salvador has long suffered from cycles of extreme violence linked to powerful criminal gangs. National authorities have responded with both severe repression and secret appeasement. In public, governments may enact “mano dura” or “iron-fist” policies, which include mass arrests of suspected gang members. But in secret, Salvadoran leaders have negotiated

“At the moment, the gangs in El Salvador are operating at a minimal capacity thanks to the arrests made by the government. Now, the

Since 2019, Nayib Bukele has transformed El Salvador’s security landscape with a ruthless crackdown on gang violence, turning one of the world’s most dangerous countries into one of Central

President Bukele highlights the reduction of gangs and crime has boosted El Salvador’s economy, leading to a 3.5% GDP growth.

The Kicker Inside El Salvador’s Dystopian Prison Network A reporter who covered the gang crackdown on why budding authoritarians like what they see. In the two years since President Nayib Bukele unleashed his brutal crackdown on El Salvador’s gangs, most of the gangsters who once lorded over the neighborhood have been imprisoned, fled or