Weekly Report - 29 October 2015 (WR-15-43)

After months of deteriorating levels of violence in El Salvador the government led by President Salvador Sánchez Cerén is pursuing a more nuanced course to the belligerent tactics that have so far characterised its response to the mara street gangs. On 26 October the government sent a special bill to the legislative assembly for the rehabilitation and reinsertion into society of members of mara gangs.

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