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Security & Strategic Review - June 2014 (ISSN 1741-4202)
EL SALVADOR: Sánchez Cerén and the gang ‘truce’: redefinition
On 12 June El Salvador's President Salvador Sánchez Cerén caused a stir when he stated, “We are not going to continue with the ‘truce’”. When pressed by the media for explanations, he said that these would come from his justice & security minister, Benito Lara. The minister did not spell out the details of the new administration’s security policy but did make it clear that it would not interfere with several of the features of the ‘truce’ between the street gangs (maras), even those that had been suspended by his predecessor, former president Mauricio Funes (2009-2014) in the last days of the Funes administration.
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