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Weekly Report - 12 May 2016 (WR-16-18)
EL SALVADOR: Burying the gang truce
The government led by President Salvador Sánchez Cerén is keen to stamp out all traces of the 2012 mara gang truce. Senior members of the military and the national police force (PNC), prison directors and a mediator of the truce were among 18 people arrested last week. The arrests come during a comparative lull in the violence that has consumed El Salvador since the collapse of the truce in 2014 and the subsequent mano dura approach adopted by the Sánchez Cerén administration. Both the mara gangs and the government are claiming credit for a sharp decline in murders in April. The gangs attribute the fall to a unilateral ceasefire declared on 26 March; the government, to the launch of ‘extraordinary measures’ to combat the gangs, which have been implemented in recent weeks.
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