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 ...

Um dos lugares mais violentos do mundo virou modelo de segurança admirado pelos resultados e questionado por violações aos ...

In an interview with ‘El Faro,’ Charli, leader of a faction of Barrio 18, details how the rapprochement with the president’s circle began ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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, Nov 2 (Reuters) - Salvadoran prisoners collaborating with officials smashed gangster graves with hammers and metal poles in President Nayib Bukele's latest crackdown on violent gangs ...

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 ...