Weekly Report - 23 February 2012 (WR-12-08)

EL SALVADOR | New security threat? El Salvador’s deputy director of investigations for the national police (PNC), Héctor Mendoza Cordero, announced this week that authorities had dismantled a 12-member cell of an armed irregular group, self-defined as “revolutionary and popular”. The group, which was detected in the Sesori municipality, in the eastern San Miguel department, calls itself the Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias Populares (FAPR) “22 de Enero”, after an indigenous peasant insurrection which took place on 22 January 1932. Mendoza’s announcement made headlines given that, while El Salvador faces 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.

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