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In Brief – Central America & Caribbean
El Salvador | A return to the past? On 21 February El Salvador’s deputy director of investigations for the national police (PNC), Héctor Mendoza Cordero, said that the authorities had discovered a 12-member cell of an armed irregular group, self-defined as “revolutionary and popular”, which calls itself the Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias Populares (FAPR) “22 de Enero”. The group was named after an indigenous peasant insurrection which took place on 22 January 1932. The group was detected in the Sesori municipality, in the San Miguel department, in the east of the country. The announcement is significant given that, while El Salvador suffers major security problems related to gang activity and delinquency, the presence of such groups has hitherto not been detected in the post-war (1980-1992) period.
