https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2jvAXTUobA
How did El Salvador destroy their gangs? The story of Gang violence in El Salvador isn't safely tucked far away in Central America like you might think. It's

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/09/world/americas/el-salvador-gangs.html
April 9, 2023. Leer en español. When the MS-13 gang ran the neighborhood of Las Margaritas, one of its strongholds in El Salvador, there were rules you had to follow to stay alive. You couldn't

https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2015/10/05/445382231/how-el-salvador-fell-into-a-web-of-gang-violence
Violence is rampant in El Salvador. In the month of August alone, there were 900 homicides. That's a daily average of 30 murders in a country with a population of 6.3 million — less than New

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/07/podcasts/the-daily/el-salvador-gangs-bukele.html
In El Salvador, they fight against each other, but in Los Angeles, they stand side by side on street corners, hoping to find a day's work. natalie kitroeff The MS 13 gang, the 18th Street gang —

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salvadoran_gang_crackdown
The Salvadoran gang crackdown, referred to in El Salvador as the régimen de excepción (Spanish for state of exception) and the guerra contra las pandillas (Spanish for war against gangs), began in March 2022 in response to a crime spike between 25 and 27 March 2022, when 87 people were killed in El Salvador. The Salvadoran government blamed the spike in murders on criminal gangs in the

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-63499052
Reuters. A grave of an MS-13 member is destroyed by a prison inmate. Prisoners in El Salvador have been destroying gang members' graves in a government bid to weaken their power. Armed with

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-63793652
When El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele attended a graduation ceremony for military officers last week, he brought more than just warm words for their future careers in law enforcement. He also

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-65596471
Trafficked war babies of El Salvador search for their long-lost families El Salvadorans forcibly adopted as infants during the 1980s civil war, are now seeking their birth-families. 12 Apr 2024

https://www.npr.org/sections/pictureshow/2024/02/06/1226991801/el-salvador-state-of-exception
Portraits from El Salvador's nearly 2-year, sprawling crackdown on gang suspects. A 16-year-old boy who was captured and claimed to have been beaten by members of El Salvador's naval force in

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/8/7/could-el-salvadors-gang-crackdown-spread-across-latin-america
Experts have said other Central American countries grappling with violent crime and gang extortion are now looking to El Salvador's success with envy. "These policies are popular, and leaders

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/4/25/el-salvador-extends-state-of-emergency-gang-violence-crackdown
El Salvador criminalises showing gang-related messages in media. The measure was initially put in place on March 27 following a particularly violent weekend in which 87 people were killed in gang

https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20240201-the-dark-side-of-el-salvador-s-war-on-gangs
Maricela Mendez, 35, was sleeping when police burst into her home in a suburb of the capital in July 2022. She was taken to prison and her children, 11 and seven, sent to stay with their

https://insightcrime.org/investigations/el-salvador-perpetual-state-emergency-how-bukele-government-overpowered-gangs/
In March 2022, the government of El Salvador President Nayib Bukele enacted a state of emergency ( régimen de excepción) in response to a brutal gang massacre that left 87 dead. Buoyed by emergency powers, security forces tore through the gangs, arresting tens of thousands of suspected gang members and collaborators.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-62205981
BBC News. El Salvador's government has extended a controversial state of emergency by another month for a fourth time. The special measures were declared in March to combat rampant gang violence

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-66379555
El Salvador: Entire region 'under siege' to hem in gangs. Thousands of soldiers in El Salvador have surrounded a rural region larger than New York City to flush out gang members who are allegedly

https://ticotimes.net/2024/02/07/el-salvadors-war-against-gangs-has-a-high-human-cost
El Salvador's War Against Gangs Has a High Human Cost. President Nayib Bukele's "war" against gangs reduced murders to historic lows in one of the most violent countries in the world not undergoing civil conflict, but among 75,000 detainees, there are some 7,000 released…innocents. Amnesty International and the Victims of the Regime

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/09/19/bukele-salvador-gang-crackdown/
Even in this violent landscape, El Salvador stood out. Its gangs, which were founded by men deported from the United States, grew to an army of at least 60,000, with branches as far away as the

https://www.vox.com/world-politics/355953/honduras-el-salvador-bukele-castro-narcos-noboa-gang-mano-dura-ecuador
by Ellen Ioanes. Jun 20, 2024, 1:20 PM PDT. Gang members are brought together for transfer in the presence of authorities, on June 11, 2024, in Tecoluca, El Salvador. Presidency of El Salvador

https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20221103-el-salvador-destroys-gang-members-gravestones
The government of El Salvador, engaged in a controversial "war" on gangs, is destroying the tombstones of gang members to prevent them from becoming shrines, the government said on Thursday.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lPhbfoPulgA
🌎🔫 From being dubbed "the murder capital of the world" to a significant decrease in violence, El Salvador's journey under President Nayib Bukele is remarka

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-63499052
A grave of an MS-13 member is destroyed by a prison inmate. By Alex Binley. BBC News. Prisoners in El Salvador have been destroying gang members' graves in a government bid to weaken their power

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-60893048
El Salvador's parliament has approved a state of emergency after the Central American country recorded dozens of gang-related murders in a single day. Police said there had been 62 murders on

https://theweek.com/violence/1011827/state-of-emergency-declared-in-el-salvador-following-day-of-brutal-gang-violence
By Catherine Garcia, The Week US. published 28 March 2022. At least 62 people were killed in El Salvador on Saturday during a spree of gang violence, leading the government to declare a state of

https://www.oneindia.com/international/brutal-reality-of-el-salvadors-mega-prison-where-those-who-enter-never-return-3859371.html
El Salvador's President, Nayib Bukele, has announced the deployment of 10,000 security forces to a suburb of San Salvador known to be a stronghold for gangs. The crusade to eradicate gang violence

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2024/06/supreme-court-separates-immigrant-families-originalism.html
As a result, he has been stranded in El Salvador for eight years, leaving Muñoz with a brutal choice: She could live in her country (the U.S.), or live with her husband (and her child's father