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The blockade of Soyapango was a Salvadoran government operation to arrest criminal gang members of Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13) and 18th Street gang in the city of Soyapango.The operation began on 3 December 2022 when Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele announced that 10,000 members of the country's security forces surrounded the city.
The gang crackdown is officially known in El Salvador as the "State of Exception" (Spanish: régimen de excepción). [13] Salvadoran president Nayib Bukele and his government have described the crackdown itself as a "war" (guerra) [14] and also refer to it as the "War Against the Gangs" (guerra contra las pandillas).
Data from the World Prison Brief (WPB) says El Salvador has per capita the highest prison population rate of anywhere in the world, with 1,659 inmates per 100,000 residents.
Both groups gained influence in El Salvador in the 1990s when their respective founders were deported from the United States to El Salvador. [5] MS-13 is more than twice the size of Barrio 18, the second-most prominent gang in El Salvador. Together, the two account for almost all of the nation's gang violence.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio said El Salvador offered to house in its jails "dangerous criminals" from anywhere in the world deported by the U.S.
El Salvador has agreed to house violent US criminals and receive deportees of any nationality, in an unprecedented deal with the Trump administration that has alarmed critics and rights groups.
3 February – El Salvador and the United States reach an agreement allowing for the incarceration of migrants and imprisoned US citizens in Salvadoran prisons. [ 1 ] 4 February – A Salvadoran military contingent arrives in Haiti to assist in the UN-backed security mission there.
In 2014 and 2015, the gangs offered to begin negotiations to restore the truce, but Funes' successor, Salvador Sánchez Cerén, refused to begin another truce. [26] [27] [28] According to an opinion poll conducted by the Technological University of El Salvador in August 2013, 47 percent of respondents believed the truce benefited the gangs ...