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

EL SALVADOR: Authorities colluding with mara gangs?

El Salvador’s attorney general’s office (FGR) is investigating active complicity of municipal authorities and the country’s mara street gangs. This would provide a new slant on the conflict in El Salvador, raising questions about the infiltration of state institutions. While there has been some speculation for a few years that municipal authorities might be illegally collaborating with the maras (and evidence of police corruption has been uncovered in this regard) nothing has been definitively proven. The FGR probe is targeting municipal authorities run by both the ruling left-wing Frente Farabundo Martí para la Liberación Nacional (FMLN) and the main right-wing opposition Alianza Republicana Nacionalista (Arena).

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