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Gang Leader Reveals Deal With Salvadoran President Bukele To Help Him Gain Power

A gang leader revealed to a Salvadoran outlet the agreements reached with President Nayib Bukele to help propel him to power and keep him there

Latin Times

Who is Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the man the US must retrieve from an El Salvador prison?

Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s story appeared as if it would begin and end in his native El Salvador

The Independent UK

Who is Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the man ICE mistakenly deported to an El Salvador prison?

President Donald Trump's administration claims Kilmar Abrego Garcia is an MS-13 gang member who should stay in an El Salvador prison

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'No Way Out': Grim Conditions In El Salvador's Mega-prison For Gangs

Confined to their cells for all but 30 minutes a day, denied visits, forced to sleep on stainless steel cots without mattresses: this is life in Latin America's biggest prison.

International Business Times

Thousands of soldiers fence off a Salvadoran neighborhood in pursuit of gang remnants

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

The Independent UK

Gangs'stories: how 15-year-old Jennifer became Honduras’ first female gang leader

For the past five years, the GANGS project, a European Research Council-funded project led by Dennis Rodgers, has been studying global gang dynamics in a comparative perspective. When understood in a nuanced manner that goes beyond the usual stereotypes and Manichean representations, gangs and gangsters constitute fundamental lenses through which…

The Conversation

How drug violence and migration are reshaping a city in the south of Mexico

Tapachula is now under the control of powerful Mexican drug cartels. A look into the new normal for the city

Latin Times

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Honduras copies El Salvador's playbook in anti-gang crackdown

Observers say that a crackdown in Honduras on gangs in the nation’s prisons is eerily similar to one carried out last year in neighboring El Salvador by President Nayib Bukele

The Independent UK

Fear stalks the funerals of victims of Honduras prison massacre

Fear simmered among the small knot of relatives gathered for the wake of a mother and daughter who were among 46 women inmates slaughtered in this week's prison riot in Honduras

The Independent UK

Gang members locked women in cells before Honduras prison riot fire

Armed people went into rival gang’s cell block, opened fire and used oil to set fire, police officer says after 46 women killed

The Guardian - US

Pastors find a role ministering to young men swept up in El Salvador's crackdown on gangs

Over the past 15 months, El Salvador’s security forces have jailed tens of thousands of people in a massive crackdown on the country’s notorious gangs

The Independent UK

War on gangs forges new El Salvador. But the price is steep.

One year ago, President Nayib Bukele suspended constitutional rights and started an all-out offensive on gangs

The Independent UK

Inside mega prison hellhole as thousands of gangsters forced to sleep on metal shelves

El Salvador has had a problem with gang-related violence for decades, but the South American country's new President Nayib Bukele has promised a crackdown on crime, and has already rounded up 63,000 gangsters and thrown most in jail

Daily Mirror

Central American gangs raising fears in southern Mexico

Street gangs from Central America are expanding their organized crime activities in southern Mexico

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El Salvador deploys 10,000 troops to gang-run capital suburb

El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele announced Saturday the deployment of 10,000 security forces to a suburb of San Salvador known to be a stronghold for gangs.

Reuters

In El Salvador, discrepancy over deaths and mass graves alarms critics

In El Salvador, testimony from police officers and conflicting statistics on mass graves are leading critics to question if homicides in the Central American country are being fully reported as access to official information tightens.

Reason

El Salvador's Latest Gang Crackdown Includes Human Rights Violations

President Nayib Bukele is using brutal tools to solve a problem driven partly by U.S. immigration policy.

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