End of preview - This article contains approximately 571 words.
Subscribers: Log in now to read the full article
Not a Subscriber?
Choose from one of the following options
Back
Security & Strategic Review - July 2013 (ISSN 1741-4202)
EL SALVADOR: ‘Truce’ rattled by surge of violence
The government of President Mauricio Funes has been trying hard to dispel public concern about the increase in violent crime that began in May and reached a new peak in late June and early July, before falling again. The official line is that the surge did not spell the failure of the ‘truce’ between the maras (street gangs) that resulted in a decline in the number of homicides from a daily average of 14 to only 5 between March and December last year. It was, officials said, just a blip.
- How much coca and cocaine: alternative UN and US views
- REGION-US: Impact of the Snowden-NSA affair on Latin America
- BOLIVIA: Coca study findings to appear at last?
- POINTERS
- PARAGUAY: Anti-cannabis drive foiled by corruption
- POINTERS
- MEXICO: Peña Nieto’s strategy is downsized
- POINTERS
- EL SALVADOR: ‘Truce’ rattled by surge of violence
- GUATEMALA: Community police ‘out of control’
- PANAMA: Mystery of North Korean ship in Panama Canal