Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13) gang members wait to be escorted upon arrival at the maximum-security jail in Zacatecoluca, El Salvador, January 31, 2019. El Salvador has among the world’s highest ...

State police arrested Roberto Carlos M.H., 38, who is allegedly associated with a local Juárez organized crime group and is under investigation in various cases, Luis Aguirre, Chihuahua state police ...

The maras (which are believed to have originated ... those with tattoos (tattoos are strongly associated with gangs in El Salvador), are also being targeted and accused, even if they have been ...

New rules passed by El Salvador’s congress Wednesday will allow ... in President Nayib Bukele’s war on the Barrio 18 and Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13) gangs, which began last year when the leader ...

Francisco Javier Román-Bardales is believed to be a "key senior leader" of Mara Salvatrucha ... of MS-13 activity in the U.S., Mexico, and El Salvador. The agency had offered a reward of up ...

Critics of Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele call his "arbitrary" arrest of human rights advocate Ruth López a deepening sign ...

Bukele won their affection last year after he launched a crackdown on El Salvador’s powerful maras — the MS-13 and Barrio 18 gangs who terrorize the small Central American nation, keep its ...

SAN SALVADOR, Dec 3 (Reuters ... in the eastern part of the capital region known to be a stronghold of the Mara Salvatrucha and Barrio 18 gangs. "8,500 soldiers and 1,500 agents have surrounded ...

The “parallel state” created by the gangs in El Salvador was destroyed with the “war” of President ... which right now does not even reach 5%,” Villatoro assured. The maras or gangs controlled 80% of ...

Armed with sledgehammers and pry bars, inmates broke up tombs marked with “MS,” of the Mara Salvatrucha gang, in a San Salvador suburb Tuesday. Santa Tecla Mayor Henry Flores said the crews ...

Salvadoran youth gangs, also known as Maras, are also well known in Italy because of urban violence. We go to El Salvador with Global Mail today to speak with Marco Falcone about the work of the ...