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Security & Strategic Review - November 2013 (ISSN 1741-4202)
EL SALVADOR: Doubts over gang truce as violence rises
A sharp increase in the number of homicides in the first half of November has heightened concern about the future of El Salvador’s gang truce, which last year had resulted in an almost halving of the country’s homicide rate. The national government has suggested that there might be a political reason for this, linked to the February 2014 elections, while the mayors of the would-be ‘peace zones’ say that progress has been halted for want of political support, and the police point to the gangs’ other continuing criminal activities.
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