Tag: gangs
the Salvadoran president attacks the United States and a specialist in armed gangs
Nayib Bukele has treated as “junk” on Twitter an anthropologist working on armed gangs. Criminal gangs still front and center after a wave of killings last month: 9,000 suspected members…
president threatens to make inmates ‘pay’ if gangs don’t stop violence
El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele threatened on Monday (March 28) to attack some 16,000 imprisoned gang members if they did not stop their killings. The Parliament of the Central American…
62 homicides in a single day, gangs singled out
Police have announced that they have recorded 62 homicides in El Salvador on Saturday March 26 alone, attributed to gangs. The country’s parliament is considering declaring a state of emergency…