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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 ...
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).
El Salvador’s Terrorism Confinement Center, commonly referred to as CECOT, is the country’s largest and newest prison, with a maximum capacity of 40,000 inmates.
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.
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.
Protests against re-election occurred in San Salvador, El Salvador on 1 May 2023 and 15 September 2023. In two protest marches, protesters marched from the Cuscatlán Park and the Rosales Hospital to the Gerardo Barrios Plaza in protest of the Salvadoran gang crackdown and President Nayib Bukele's re-election campaign.
El Salvador's gang violence has reached a very concerning place in terms of its country's safety. The MS-13 and Barrio 18 are involved in extortion, human trafficking, narco-activities, and violence. [6] MS-13 and Barrio 18 are powerful gangs that have great control over citizens in El Salvador causing people to feel fear and displacement. The ...
28 October – A joint military-police operation involving 2,500 security personnel is launched to find suspected gang members in the 10 de Octubre neighborhood of San Salvador. [ 14 ] 30 October – The Legislative Assembly of El Salvador approves a proposal to send soldiers to Haiti as part of the United Nations Multinational Security Support ...