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Caribbean & Central America - May 2015 (ISSN 1741-4458)
EL SALVADOR: War on mara gangs looms
Annihilate the mara gangs. This was the core message of the former mayor of New York, Rudy Giuliani, when he visited El Salvador at the start of May to present a plan drawn up by his consultancy, Giuliani Security and Safety, to the country’s powerful private business association (Anep), which hired him. This should suit President Salvador Sánchez Cerén, whose government has already responded to mounting violence by adopting an aggressive security policy, creating three 400-strong elite army battalions to take the fight to the gangs in the 50 municipalities where their presence is strongest; transferring imprisoned mara leaders en masse from ‘softer’ common jails to the maximum-security prison Zacatecoluca; and floating the threat of extradition to the US.
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