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Security & Strategic Review - February 2016 (ISSN 1741-4202)

EL SALVADOR: Gangs target police as homicides rocket

All the focus since the turn of the year has been on official figures for 2015 confirming that El Salvador is now the most violent country outside of a war zone. While this is naturally an unwelcome tag for the government led by President Salvador Sánchez Cerén to have acquired, a separate development was visible in the pattern of murders in the opening weeks of 2016 that will be even more concerning.

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