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Prison deaths mount in El Salvador's gang crackdown
Associated Press via Yahoo News· 2 years agoSAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) — Jesús Joya says his brother was “special” -- at 45, he was childlike, eager to please. He was as far from a gang member...
Thousands of tattooed inmates transferred to El Salvador ‘mega-prison’ in gang crackdown
The Independent via Yahoo News· 1 year agoOfficials in El Salvador have released footage showing tattooed and shaven inmates being transferred...
Bukele has El Salvador poised to prosper after stopping murder, migration cold in first term
Fox News via Yahoo News· 6 days agoMEXICO CITY - El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele started his second-term as the country's leader,...
El Salvador vows gang crackdown will go on as citizens cheer safer streets
Reuters via Yahoo News· 1 year agoEl Salvador's state of emergency to combat gangs, which has widespread public support despite a...
The 'world's coolest dictator' rounded up 60,000 people in a supposed crackdown on MS-13. A shrimp...
INSIDER via Yahoo News· 1 year agoResidents of the Bajo Lempa meet weekly at a retreat center to discuss the mass arrests.Fred Ramos...
These women say their babies were stillborn. Courts convicted them of homicide in a country with...
CNN via Yahoo News· 8 months agoTeodora Vásquez says she struggled to rejoin society after El Salvador’s Supreme Court commuted her...
Hundreds of children packed in El Salvador's overcrowded prisons -rights group
Reuters via Yahoo News· 1 year agoThe rights watchdog said following the introduction of a state of emergency suspending key rights to address gang violence in March last year, tens of thousands had been put into overcrowded ...
How El Salvador loves its ‘cool dictator’ who shut down the gangs – but at the cost of human rights
The Telegraph via Yahoo News· 4 months agoFor years the Mara Salvatrucha, one of the most violent street gangs on earth, brutally controlled...
Detainees in El Salvador's gang crackdown cite abuse during months in jail
Associated Press via Yahoo News· 6 months agoThe day he was arrested, Luis was in a government office trying to get a document attesting to his...
41 women die in grisly riot in Honduran prison that president blames on 'mara' gangs
Associated Press via Yahoo News· 12 months agoA grisly riot at a women’s prison in Honduras Tuesday left at least 41 women dead, most burned to...