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Security & Strategic Review - June 2013 (ISSN 1741-4202)
EL SALVADOR: Reacting to the gaps in the gang truce
The ‘truce’ between El Salvador’s main street gangs has been losing its shine rapidly, chiefly because while the gangs have stopped killing each other, they have continued to engage in one of the scourges of Salvadorean society: extortion. The Catholic bishops’ conference has condemned the persistence of this practice. The country’s chief prosecutor has said that ‘anyone who doesn’t want to see this is either shortsighted or blind’. The government has fielded a new anti-extortion unit which has begun to produce results within days of its creation.
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