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Security & Strategic Review - December 2013 (ISSN 1741-4202)
EL SALVADOR: Gang violence peaks again
The latest statistics released by the Salvadorean police show a distinct upward trend in the homicide rate since the middle of the year. The authorities have attributed this increase to a breach in the ‘truce’ agreed in March 2012 by the country’s two largest street gangs, but the mediators of the truce argue that it has not failed. President Mauricio Funes has been blowing hot and cold.
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