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Maria was 13 when Honduran gangsters raped her and forcibly recruited her, ripping her from her home. Three years later, her mother is anxiously...
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A court in El Salvador on Thursday held a virtual sentencing hearing for 492 leaders of the feared Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13) gang, accused of...
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Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele’s relentless war on gangs is steadily filling the cellblocks of a massive prison that may be Latin America’s largest. At...
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A new law allowing as many as 900 alleged gang members to be tried at a time in El Salvador, where tens of thousands...
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Crime has taken a sadistic turn in Ecuador, where kidnappers now regularly amputate the fingers of their victims and send images to pressure relatives...
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A second group of 2,000 inmates were moved on Wednesday amid tight security to a new prison built in El Salvador to accommodate more...
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The first 2,000 inmates of a new prison built in El Salvador to accommodate more than 40,000 suspected gangsters targeted in President Nayib Bukele’s...
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An unprecedented round up of alleged gangsters in El Salvador has netted thousands of suspects and brought relief to citizens living in fear.
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El Salvadoran NGOs asked the judiciary on Tuesday to declare unconstitutional a new measure that journalists warn could criminalize certain forms of media reporting...