Weekly Report - 07 April 2016 (WR-16-13)

It takes something exceptional to get all of El Salvador’s political parties to vote unanimously to approve any legislative initiative. This rare occurrence took place on 1 April when deputies voted on a decree sent by President Salvador Sánchez Cerén as part of his promised “extraordinary measures” to reduce soaring levels of violence in the country. The decree aims to tighten security in El Salvador’s prisons to stop killings being ordered from inside by severing the link between the imprisoned leaders of the Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13) and the two factions of Barrio 18 (Revolucionarios and Sureños), and the rank-and-file outside.

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