Weekly Report - 09 November 2017 (WR-17-44)
EL SALVADOR: Mayor faces trial for mara collaboration
A former mayor and member of El Salvador’s right-wing Alianza Republicana Nacionalista (Arena) will face trial accused of having planned and coordinated the murder of two men, one of them a police officer, with leaders of a mara street gang. The attorney general’s office (FGR) has uncovered growing evidence of the active complicity of municipal authorities and mara gangs, raising serious questions about the infiltration of state institutions.
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