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Caribbean & Central America - August 2015 (ISSN 1741-4458)
El Salvador’s FMLN denounces coup conspiracy amid mara murders
El Salvador’s mara street gangs took the violence consuming the country in recent months to new heights in late July, targeting bus drivers on a murder spree designed to strike back at the government led by President Salvador Sánchez Cerén for rejecting dialogue in favour of confrontation. Six bus drivers and one transport worker were killed in the space of 48 hours as the maras forced private bus companies to stage a strike on dozens of routes paralysing the public transport system in metropolitan San Salvador. Public insecurity and the parlous state of the economy are enduring concerns for the government, and with 1.3m people affected, the strike seriously tested Sánchez Cerén’s resolve - but he refused to buckle. The key questions are whether his call for greater military intervention will simply exacerbate the problem and whether there is any substance to his ‘soft coup’ claims.
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