Weekly Report - 06 August 2015 (WR-15-31)

El Salvador’s government managed to break the ‘strike’ on 31 July enforced by a faction of one of the country’s principal mara street gangs, Barrio 18 Revolucionarios. Private bus companies began to ply their trade again after the government led by President Salvador Sánchez Cerén promised a permanent police or military presence on the buses, and threatened them with sanctions. But after several days of uneasy calm, on 5 August a bus driver, a ticket collector, an army corporal and a passenger were killed by maras on the outskirts of San Salvador, and a further 15 passengers were injured.

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