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Weekly Report - 8 May 2014 (WR-14-18)

EL SALVADOR: Are maras infiltrating security forces?

The Salvadorean government is investigating infiltration of the armed forces (FAES) and the national police force (PNC) by mara street gang members. The justice & public security minister, Ricardo Perdomo, confirmed as much this week after the military college revealed that an army cadet had been identified as an active member of a mara gang investigated by the attorney general’s office for murdering another gang member late last year. Perdomo helped to fan local media hype by denouncing “a strategy of institutional penetration” by mara gangs to infiltrate the FAES and the PNC in order to frustrate security plans and to obtain training and steal weapons.

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