US Terrorism Trial of MS13 Leader Could Expose El Salvador Gang Talks
A top leader of the Mara Salvatrucha (MS13) pleaded not guilty to terrorism charges filed by US federal prosecutors, marking…
Honduras and El Salvador: Two States of Emergency With Very Different Results
El Salvador’s success in fighting gangs with a state of emergency inspired Honduras to do its own version. But one…
Keeping a Lid on Prisons
Diego* was thrown into prison just days after El Salvador’s state of emergency began. A 22-year-old university student, he had…
‘Too Many Soldiers’: How Bukele’s Crackdown Succeeded Where Others Failed
Before the administration of El Salvador President Nayib Bukele, no government had succeeded in breaking up the country’s vaunted and…
The Road to El Salvador’s State of Emergency
The road to El Salvador’s state of emergency has been long and bloody. The small Central American nation spent decades…
The Future Looks Bleak for El Salvador’s Gangs
On a scorching July afternoon at an urban park in El Salvador’s Apopa municipality, just north of capital city San…
Gangs on the Run: How Bukele’s Crackdown Drove Gangs Underground
It was mid-October 2022 when Felipe,* a heavily-tattooed former member of El Salvador’s largest street gang finally escaped the government’s…
How Bukele’s Government Overpowered Gangs: Summary & Major Findings
In March 2022, the government of El Salvador launched one of the most relentless security crackdowns in its history in…
Coca in Honduras: Cultivating and Consuming Fear
This article is part of NarcoFiles: The New Criminal Order, a transnational journalistic investigation into global organized crime, its innovations,…
El Salvador Frees ‘Terrorist’ Johana Flores
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