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El Salvador gangs: Mass arrests bring calm but at what price?

2023-05-19 07:49
More than 66,000 people have been arrested since a state of exception was introduced a year ago.
El Salvador gangs: Mass arrests bring calm but at what price?

The sprawling municipality of Soyapango was once a battleground for El Salvador's two biggest and most feared street gangs.

For decades, the MS13 and the 18th Street Gang dumped victims' bodies in ditches and streams, on roadsides and wasteland across the notoriously dangerous district of the capital...