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A crackdown in Honduras on gangs in the nation’s prisons is eerily similar to one carried out last year in neighboring El Salvador by President Nayib Bukele, observers said Tuesday. Like ...
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).
On 24 November 2022, the government of Honduras declared a state of emergency regarding gang violence in the country. [6] On 3 December 2022, the government announced that some constitutional rights would be suspended in the cities of Tegucigalpa and San Pedro Sula to crack down on criminal gangs in those two cities, particularly Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13) and 18th Street Gang.
Also on Twitter, US ambassador to Honduras Laura Dogu expressed condolences and said, "This tragedy exacerbates serious concerns about the security and human rights of all those deprived of liberty" ("Esta tragedia agrava las serias preocupaciones sobre la seguridad y los derechos humanos de todos los privados de libertad").
Ongoing – 2022–23 Honduran gang crackdown January 8 – President Xiomara Castro extends the state of emergency linked to the ongoing gang crackdown by 45 days. [2]March 25 – Honduras switches its formal diplomatic recognition of "China" from the Republic of China to the People's Republic of China.
The Terrorism Confinement Center (Spanish: Centro de Confinamiento del Terrorismo, abbreviated CECOT) is a maximum security prison located in Tecoluca, El Salvador.It was built in late 2022 amidst a large-scale gang crackdown in El Salvador and opened by the Salvadoran government in January 2023.
A mara is regarded as a group of delinquents of Latin America origin who reside in the United States but have spread towards Central America; namely, in the countries belonging to the Northern Triangle of Central America: Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala. The maras are not just Central American phenomena; they are transnational.
Rubio boards a plane en route to El Salvador at Panama Pacifico International Airport in Panama City. Pool AP/AFP via Getty Images. Trump, 78, also hinted that he may try to get a change in policy ...