EL SALVADOR VIOLENCE (ADDS VIDEO)
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Crime & Justice
Security forces besiege slum in Salvadoran capital
San Salvador, Dec 24 (EFE).- Nearly 1,200 Salvadoran police and soldiers surrounded a slum in this capital on Saturday as…
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Crime & Justice
El Salvador has had 12 murder-free days in August, police say
San Salvador, Aug 18 (EFE).- El Salvador, now in the fifth month of a state of emergency enacted with the…
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Crime & Justice
Salvadoran gov’t imposes information blackout on state of emergency
San Salvador, Jul 12 (EFE).- More than 100 days into a state of emergency the Salvadoran government said was needed…
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Crime & Justice
Salvadoran mother pleads for release of jailed sons
By Hugo Sanchez San Salvador, Jun 24 (EFE).- Mayra Orellana’s hope is that her two sons, arrested under El Salvador’s…
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Crime & Justice
Murders drop in El Salvador amid crackdown on gangs
San Salvador, Mar 29 (EFE).- Salvadoran authorities boasted Tuesday of a sharp drop in homicides three days into the state…
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Politics
El Salvador isolates imprisoned gang members after emergency decreed
San Salvador, Mar 27 (EFE).- Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele on Sunday ordered the isolation of all imprisoned gang members after…
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