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"Hidden, but There Are": Fear Persists in Old Gang Bastion in El Salvador
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San Marcos, El Salvador. Esperanza Martínez was killed by three relatives and saw many corpses in his neighborhood, an old fief of the Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13) in El Salvador. For some time now he has lived more calmly, but he does not trust the gang members: "There are always hidden, but there are," he whispers. At the foot of a hill of San Marcos, 5 km south of the capital, the 10th of October colony, like other exbassions of the maras, is ano…
“We are not going to allow these criminals to continue to frighten the Salvadorans well,” the official reiterated. EL SALVADOR.- The Minister of Justice and Security, Gustavo Villatoro, reported on the capture of two gang members of the MS13 structure, who had already served a sentence when they were minors. “They thought that they would go out as they always did with that legal system of laughter, made to measure the needs of the criminal organ…
Since the implementation of the emergency regime in March 2022, the Government of El Salvador has intensified security actions aimed at dismantling gang structures. According to the most recent report of the Cabinet of Security, until June 30, 2025 87,088 arrests of gang members were recorded in [...] The post Emergency regime leaves more than 87,000 gang members captured since 2022, according to official balance sheet appeared first on Diario D…
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