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Caribbean & Central America - July 2016 (ISSN 1741-4458)
EL SALVADOR: Reduction in violence offers chink of light
After the most violent opening three months of a year in recorded history in 2016, El Salvador has seen the rate of homicides decline dramatically in the ‘second quarter’. The government claims responsibility for the fall in homicides which it has attributed to the ‘extraordinary measures’ it decreed in March to combat the country’s mara street gangs. Conversely, Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13) and Barrio 18 argue that it is due to a decision by leaders of the two main gangs to agree to a unilateral truce on 26 March.
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