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Tren de Aragua: Venezuelan gang raises concerns on El Paso, Juárez border
The El Paso Times via Yahoo News· 2 weeks agoA fast-spreading gang that originated in a Venezuelan prison has been detected in the El Paso-Juárez...
How El Salvador loves its ‘cool dictator’ who shut down the gangs – but at the cost of human rights
The Telegraph via Yahoo News· 3 months agoFor years the Mara Salvatrucha, one of the most violent street gangs on earth, brutally controlled...
Salvadorans demand release of innocents jailed in anti-gang sweep
Reuters via Yahoo News· 1 year agoSeveral hundred people in El Salvador took to the streets on Tuesday to protest the year-long anti-gang policies of President Nayib Bukele, many demanding the release of relatives they say have ...
Honduras wants to build West's only island prison colony and lock gangsters inside
Associated Press via Yahoo News· 10 months agoHonduras plans to build the only island prison colony in the Western Hemisphere and send its...
They left gangs and found God. But they weren't spared in El Salvador's crackdown
LA Times via Yahoo News· 1 year agoEl Salvador's evangelical churches rehabilitated ex-gang members. The country's crackdown on...
War on gangs forges new El Salvador. But the price is steep.
Associated Press via Yahoo News· 1 year agoStepping foot in La Campanera, once one of El Salvador's bloodiest neighborhoods, would have been...
Pastors find a role ministering to young men swept up in El Salvador's crackdown on gangs
Associated Press via Yahoo News· 11 months agoThe smell of pineapple bread fills the kitchen of “Vida Libre,” or “free life,” a gang...
As El Salvador's president tries to silence free press, journalist brothers expose his ties to...
LA Times via Yahoo News· 2 years agoJournalists in El Salvador who write about gangs can now be sent to prison. Two brothers defy the...