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LatinNews Daily - 04 May 2016

El Salvador: Mediator of gang truce arrested

Development: On 3 May the head of El Salvador’s attorney general’s office (FGR), Douglas Meléndez, confirmed 21 arrests, on charges including illicit association and introducing contraband into prisons, of former government officials and three ranking police (PNC) officers, all of whom were linked to the 2012 truce between the country’s two main street gangs, Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13) and Barrio 18 (M-18).

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